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Born November 17, 1684 • London • England
Died July 24, 1756 (aged 71) • London • England

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Canute
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, detail of an engraving by G. Vertue after a portrait by Paul van Somer
Ralph Cudworth
Francis Godwin, detail of an engraving by G. Vertue, derived from an earlier portrait, frontispiece to De Praesulibus Angliae, 1743
Eliza Haywood, engraving by G. Vertue after a portrait by James Parmentier
Sir Robert Howard, engraving by G. Vertue
Thomas Willis, engraving by G. Vertue, 1742, after a portrait by D. Loggan, c. 1666
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