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Description: | Abbe Vertot was appointed historian to the Order by Grand Master Perellos in 1715 and nominated to the Priory of Santenay by the Grand Prior of France, the Chevalier d'Orleans. His Histoire des Chevaliers Hospitaliers de St. Jean de Herusalem, published in 1726, was as popular as it was inaccurate. He is notoriously said to have turned down material on the Siege of Rhodes with the remark: 'J'ai fait mon siege'. Vertot's iconography is based mainly on a portrait type by Jacques-Francois Delyn (1684-1761), of which this painting may be a version. An engraved portrait by Laurent Cars, also after Delyen, appears as the frontispiece to Histoire des Chevaliers Hospitaliers. | Subjects: | portrait (Abbe Rene Aubert de Vertot) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: French School Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8604... | Go to resource |
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