Early Life, Training and Family Frederick Smallfield was born on 16 October 1829 in the London Borough of Hackney. He grew up in an environment where the visual arts were a shared language. His siblings, Philip and Beatrice Smallfield, also became artists who exhibited their work. This family connection suggests a household shaped by the practicalities of making and showing art. In the late 1840s, Frederick Smallfield entered the Roy…