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GEORGE VERTUE (1684-1756)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 1051 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:VERTUE (1684-1756)  , See also:English engraver and See also:antiquary, was See also:born in St See also: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 . 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 . 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 . 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 See also:Simon (1753); Catalogue and Description of See also: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 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 (1758) ; Description of the Works of that Ingenious Delineator and Engraver, W .

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Hollar (1745) .

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