The Fair Toxophilites (or English Archers, Nineteenth Century)
William Frith’s handsome young lady archers inhabit both a private and public pictorial world. Privately, English Archers, Nineteenth Century was created as a fanciful representation of the artist’s three daughters, Alice, Fanny and Louisa (left to right). Above all, the painting must have been valued as a novel family portrait and remained, rarely exhibited, with Frith’s descendants until acquired by the Museum. In the public sphere The Fair Toxophilites has become one of the most famous images of affluent Victorian leisure.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 305/1976
- Category
- Fine Art
- Collection Class
- Paintings
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Common Name
- The Fair Toxophilites (or English Archers, Nineteenth Century)
- Simple Name
- painting
- Inscription Transcription
- WP Frith 1872; 224MX 1722C0
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Town
- London
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- 1872
- Production Person Initials
- William Powell
- Production Person Surname
- Frith
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
