The Fair Toxophilites

The Fair Toxophilites is an 1872 oil painting by the British artist William Powell Frith depicting three young women practicing archery.

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.

It reflects the Victorian era archery craze, referred to in the novel Daniel Deronda by George Eliot.

The review in The Athenaeum, which was generally hostile to Frith's work, was critical.