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George Vertue
[English Engraver, 1683-1756]
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George Vertue Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Portrait of a man seated at a desk, (copy after Godfrey Kneller)
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
National Library of Australia, Canberra
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Huntington Library, California
Université de Liège Collections (in French) 
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, England
A Perspective view of the Abbey Church of St. Peter and St. Paul at Bath
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
UK Government Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on George Vertue 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
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