abstract:Frances Spalding CBE, FRSL (née Crabtree, born 16 July 1950{SPALDING, Prof. Frances’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 12 Jan 2013) is a British art historian and writer.