George Vertue

(1684-1756)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Vertue, George, 1684-1756 NRA: Vertue, George (1684-1756) Engraver and Antiquary DNB: Vertue, George (1684–1756), engraver and antiquary LBT ID: GeVertu1756 VIAF ID: 24699291 LOC ID: n50053097	B/BAP: 1684-11-17 DIED: 1756-07-24
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English printmaker and antiquary; he was engraver to Oxford University (1727). Horace Walpole published his Anecdotes of Painting in England (1762-71)
REFERENCES TO George Vertue: Horace Walpole to James Edwards, [1794] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter V. 1795 Found 1: ¶ n1