Maxwell Ashby Armfield, R.W.S. (Ringwood, Hampshire 1881-1972 Warminster, Wiltshire)

In his autobiography Sewell mentioned meeting Frank Smith, an art dealer 'whose wife kept a little china shop at the north end of Church Street Kensington', from whom he bought a painting. He then recalled 'years later, long after his death, Frank Smith stared at me from the window of the Fine Art Society - a portrait painted by Maxwell Armfield - I bought it, an act of purest sentiment' (B. Sewell, Outsider: always almost: never quite, London, 2011, p. 224)