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in the late 1840s, at the same time as various members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, although he seems not to have been closely associated with them. In 1858, Smallfield's watercolours were praised in ''Academy Notes'' by

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. In 1860, he was elected Associate of the Watercolour Society (ARWS). He contributed two illustrations, ''The Shoeblack'' and ''A Christmas Invitation'', to ''Passages From Modern English Poets'' (1862), one called ''A Father's Lament'' to

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's ''English Sacred Poetry of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries'' (1863) and another to ''The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century at the Great Exhibition MDCCCLI'' by Sir

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, published by Day & Son, London, 1851–1853. He exhibited works in oil at the Royal Academy until the late 1870s. His work is now in the collections of the

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(''The Ringers of Launcells Tower'', 1887),

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(''Early Lovers'', 1857), and the Atkinson Art Gallery at

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(''The Lost Glove'', 1858). Some of his drawings are in the

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, including a sketch of a wall decoration by

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References

External links

*
Passages from Modern English Poets
' at Archive.org – Smallfield's work is on plate 33. *
English Sacred Poetry of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries
' – at Archive.org – – Smallfield's work is on page 338. {{DEFAULTSORT:Smallfield, Frederick 1829 births 1915 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters 20th-century English painters English watercolourists Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools Pre-Raphaelite painters 20th-century English male artists 19th-century English male artists