Richard Baxter

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Baxter was ordained in 1638 and he became a minister at Kidderminster in Worcestershire in 1641. During the civil wars, he served as a chaplain to one of Cromwell's regiments, after which he returned to Kidderminster. After the Restoration in 1660, Baxter settled in London. He had been made a king's chaplain, and was offered the post of Bishop of Hereford, but turned down the offer, an act that ended his ecclesiastical career. In his later years, he was a prolific writer of almost two hundred treatises. The work for which he is best remembered was A Call to the Unconverted (1658), which was credited with numerous conversions and formed one of the core texts of evangelicalism until the nineteenth century.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Richard Baxter

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 72.4 x W 61.6 cm

Accession number

521

Acquisition method

Transferred from the British Museum, 1879

Work type

Painting

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