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's painted portrait of Vertue from 1733]] George Vertue (1684 – July 24, 1756) was an English
England

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 engraver and antiquary, whose notebooks on British art of the first half of the 18th century are a valuable source for the period.

ue was born in 1684 in St Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London
London

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. At the age of 13, he was apprenticed to a heraldic engraver of French origin.

n engraver, Vertue worked seven years under Michael Vandergucht.






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's painted portrait of Vertue from 1733]] George Vertue (1684 – July 24, 1756) was an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 engraver and antiquary, whose notebooks on British art of the first half of the 18th century are a valuable source for the period.

Early years

Vertue was born in 1684 in St Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
. At the age of 13, he was apprenticed to a heraldic engraver of French origin.

Career

As an engraver, Vertue worked seven years under Michael Vandergucht. During this time and later, he executed more than five hundred engraved portraits. In 1711, he was among the first members of Godfrey Kneller
Godfrey Kneller

Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to British monarchs from Charles II of England to George I of the United Kingdom....
's London Academy of Painting. In 1717, he was appointed engraver to the Society of Antiquaries
Society of Antiquaries of London

The Society of Antiquaries of London is the world?s premier Learned Society for heritage. It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London in the United Kingdom, along with the Royal Academy and four other leading Learned Societies; the Linnean Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Geological Society of London and the Royal Astrono...
. From 1713 on, Vertue was a keen researcher on details of the history of British art, accumulating about forty volumes of notebooks. He was a member of the Rose and Crown Club
Rose and Crown Club

The Rose and Crown Club was a club for artists, collectors and connoisseurs of art in early 18th-century London, England....
, with William Hogarth
William Hogarth

William Hogarth was a major England painting, Printmaking, pictorial satire, Social criticism and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art....
, Peter Tillemans
Peter Tillemans

Peter Tillemans was a Flemish art painting, best known for his works on Hunting and shooting in the United Kingdom and landscape subjects. Alongside John Wootton and James Seymour, he was one of the founders of the English school of sporting painting....
 and other artists and connoisseurs, and kept some records of it.

Vertue died in London on July 24, 1756, and was buried in Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey

The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, which is almost always referred to popularly and informally as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic architecture Church , in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster....
.

Legacy

Horace Walpole purchased Vertue's notebooks after his death. Although disorderly and mainly unreflective, Walpole based his Anecdotes of Painting in England (5 vols., 1762-1771) on these notes. The original wording of the manuscripts was only published in the 20th century by the Walpole Society
Walpole Society

The Walpole Society, named after Horace Walpole, was formed in 1911 to promote the study of the history of British art.From 1762 on, Walpole had published the first history of art in Britain, based on the manuscript notebooks of George Vertue, the most important source of information concerning British art before the mid-eighteenth century....
.

External links

  • Images of works
    • [https://ssl.perfora.net/s202952973.oneandoneshop.com/sess/utn15469cd503a9b48/shopdata/product_search.shopscript?query=vertue&search_logical=or&x=22&y=12 Portrait of Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset]


See also

  • English school of painting