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Title: A catalogue of engravers, who have been born or resided in England
Year: 1767 (1760s)
Authors: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 Bannerman, Alexander, fl. 1730-1780 Chambars, Thomas, ca. 1724-1789 Dobson, William, 1611-1646 Faithorne, William, 1616-1691 Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745 Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641 Vertue, George, 1684-1756 Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Vertue, George, 1684-1756 Vertue, George, 1684-1756 Engravers Printmakers
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by Loyd, Winftanley,and fuch obfolete biographers! Fuller, amidft. his antiquated wit, yetwit it was, is full of curious, though perhaps minute information.His fucceflbr Anthony Wood, who had no more notion of elegancethan a fcalping Indian, nor half fo much dexterity in hacking his ene-mies, is inexhauftibly ufeful. Peacham finds his place here by agood print that he engraved after Holbein of fir Thomas Cromwell,knight, afterwards earl of EfTex. :635J ROBERT DE VOERST Was an eminent mailer, competitor of Vofterman, andknown by fome prints of merit from the works of Vandyck. In* He was of.Trinity-college, Cambridge, where he took the degree of mafterof arts, and was tutor to the earl of Arundels children, whom he attended intothe Low-countries. Befides the Compleat Gentleman, he wrote a little tradlwith fome humour, called, TheWorth of a Penny; and divers other works,as is faid, in an advertifement at the end of the fecond edition of the laft men-tioned piece. o>riartu^e^dA~ 4 a,.
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• J)rd -paw?. T- CfuT7>l$JTX.< lltt/e. Catalogue of Engravers. 45 In what year he came to England or left it, does not appear: his Iateftworks in this country are dated 1635. Vanderdort, who mentionshim three or four times in king Charless catalogue *, exprefsly callshim the kings engraver, for whom he did two plates, one of hismajeftys fifter, the other of the emperor Otho, which Vandyckpainted to fupply the lofs of one of Titians Caefars. Voerfl made aprefent too to the king of a drawing on vellom with the pen, our ladyhugging Chrift, and St. John. Mr. Evelyn mentioning Voerfl:,iays-f-, He has likewife graven a number of heads after Vandyck;Ifhall only mention (thofe of) the learned fir Kenelm Digby, InigoJones, and thofe two incomparable figures \ of king Charles and hisroyal confort. He executed another of the queen alone, and thefollowing; Robert earl of Lindfey, from Mirevelt. James Stewart duke of Lenox, a middle-fized oval, with fhortround head of hair. Geo. Geldorp pi

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