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William Vertue
William Vertue (died 1527) was an English architect specialising in Fan vault ceilings.
Along with his brother Robert, he was involved in the construction of the Tower of London (1501–1502), Bath Abbey, the Vertue brothers are reported as telling Bishop Oliver King the patron of the work that the vaulting "Ther shal be no one so goodeley, neither in England nor in France" and the vaulting and the clerestory windows and walls of the Henry VII's chapel at Westminster, between 1506–09, though
the remarks of the painter William Sykes, recorded by the English engraver and antiquary George Vertue who wrote that:
George Vertue also recorded in a notebook that the painter William Sykes had informed him that a painter called 'Wesop' or 'Weesep' had come to England in 1641 'in the time of Vandyke' and had remained until 1649 and that his pictures 'pass for Vandyke' ('Vertue Note Books', I, Walpole Society, XVIII, 1929-30, p. 49).
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