The Fair Toxophilites
| The Fair Toxophilites | |
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| Artist | William Powell Frith |
| Year | 1872 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 98.2 cm × 81.7 cm (38.7 in × 32.2 in) |
| Location | Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter |
The Fair Toxophilites is an 1872 oil painting by the British artist William Powell Frith depicting three young women practicing archery.[1] It also known by the title English Archers, Nineteenth Century. Today the painting is in the collection of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, in Exeter.[2]
The three women portrayed were Frith's daughters Alice, Fanny and Louise. They are all dressed in a very fashionable way, reflecting their upper class status. It reflects the Victorian era archery craze, referred to in the novel Daniel Deronda by George Eliot.[3] [4] Frith exhibited it at the Royal Academy's 1873 Summer Exhibition alongside another featuring women playing billiards. The review in The Athenaeum, which was generally hostile to Frith's work, was critical. A more positive reception came from The Art Journal and The Times. [5]
References
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- Cohen, Michael. Sisters: Relation and Rescue in Nineteenth-century British Novels and Paintings. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995.
- Green, Richard & Sellars, Jane. William Powell Frith: The People's Painter. Bloomsbury, 2019.
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- Trotter, David. William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age. Yale University Press, 2006
- Wood, Christopher. William Powell Frith: A Painter and His World. Sutton Publishing, 2006.
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