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.
The three women portrayed were Frith's daughters Alice, Fanny and Louise. It reflects the Victorian era archery craze, referred to in the novel Daniel Deronda by George Eliot.[2] [3] 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. [4] Today the painting is in the collection of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter.[5]
References
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[edit]- 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.
- Rogers, Pat (ed.) The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2001.
- 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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