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A fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, Froude was ordained deacon in 1845. Becoming increasingly frustrated with the views of the High Church, he published The Nemesis of Faith in 1849. The book caused a scandal and, at the college's request, he resigned his fellowship at Oxford. From then on, he mainly supported himself by writing. The first two volumes of his History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada appeared in 1856, and it was completed in 1870. He returned to Oxford in 1892 as Regius Professor of Modern History. Froude wrote a controversially frank biography of Thomas Carlyle, in which he made public his belief that the marriage was unconsummated.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

James Anthony Froude

Date

1881

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 34.6 x W 23.5 cm

Accession number

4990

Acquisition method

Purchased, 1974

Work type

Painting

National Portrait Gallery, London

St Martin’s Place, London, Greater London WC2H 0HE England

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Artist or maker

George Reid

1841–1913

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