See also:GEORGE See also:VERTUE (1684-1756)
, See also:English engraver and See also:antiquary, was See also:born in St See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin's-in-the-See also:Fields, See also:London, in 1684
.
At the See also:age of thirteen he was apprenticed to an heraldic engraver, a Frenchman, who failed in three or four years
.
See also:Vertue then studied See also:drawing at See also:home, and afterwards worked for seven years as an engraver under See also:Michael Vandergucht
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He was patronized by See also:Sir See also:Godfrey See also:Kneller, and was one of the first members of the See also:Academy of See also:Painting which that artist instituted in 1711
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His See also:plate of See also:Archbishop See also:Tillotson, after Kneller, commissioned by See also:Lord See also:Somers, established his reputation as an engraver; and he was soon in an'excellent practice, See also:engraving portraits after See also:Dahl, See also:Richardson, Jervas and See also:Gibson
.
In See also:portraiture alone he executed over five See also:hundred plates
.
In 1717 he was appointed engraver to the Society of Antiquaries, and his burin was employed upon many interesting statues, tombs, portraits and other subjects of all antiquarian nature
.
He died on the 24th of See also:July 1756, and was buried in the cloisters of See also:Westminster See also:Abbey
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From the See also:year 1713 Vertue had been indefatigable in his researches on all matters connected with the See also:history of See also:British See also:art, and had accumulated about See also:forty volumes of memoranda on the subject
.
These were See also:purchased by See also:Horace See also:Walpole, and See also:form the basis of that author's Anecdotes of Painting in See also:England, including an See also:account of Vertue's See also:life and a See also:catalogue of his engravings
.
Vertue's own See also:literary See also:works include On See also:Holbein and See also:Gerard's Pictures (1740) ; Medals, Coins, See also:Great See also:Seals, Impressions, from the Elaborate Works of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Simon (1753); Catalogue and Description of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Charles the First's See also:Capital Collection of Pictures, Limnings, Statues, &c
.
(1757); Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures belonging to King See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James II., to which is added a Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings in the Closet of See also:Queen See also:Caroline (1758); Catalogue of the Curious Collection of Pictures of See also:George See also:Villiers, See also:Duke of See also:- BUCKINGHAM
- BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
- BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
- BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
Buckingham (1758) ; Description of the Works of that Ingenious Delineator and Engraver, W
.
See also:Hollar (1745)
.
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