Archery Painting, The Fair Toxophilites
Archery Painting, The Fair Toxophilites
Oil On Canvas Archery Painting, The Fair Toxophilite.
A wonderful near recreation of the 1872 painting created by William Powell Frith, "The Fair Toxophilites" also known as "English Archers, Nineteenth Century". In Firth's oil painting three women are depicted practising archery. The three women portrayed were Frith's daughters Alice, Fanny and Louise and are all dressed in a very fashionable way, reflecting their upper class status and shows the Victorian's craze for archery. The original is currently in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, Frith exhibited it at the Royal Academy's 1873 Summer Exhibition alongside another painting featuring women playing billiards. This smaller painting is by an unknown artist, artists monogramme (EYE with a crown) lower left, and only features one of Frith's daughters with an arrow nocked, string pulled back and taking aim at an unseen target.
Frame size:- 39½ cm high by 29 cm wide.
Dimensions:
1950-1999
Oil on canvas
United Kingdom
Victorian
Very good.
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