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106 her sentence, and was then executed with the others, who were all beheaded, and their heads set up at different parts of the town. Her head, Stowe says, was set upon London-bridge. Female Worthies. her childhood, followed the art of painting, and excelled in birds, plants, flowers, insects, reptiles, and almost all that belongs to natural history. Her works are regarded as chefs-d'œuvre, where art rivals nature for correctness in design, for delicacy and precision of colours. In 1788, though 78 years of age, this indefatigable artist still ventured to expose herself, for whole days, to the rays of the sun, in the most painful attitudes, to copy, for the cabinet of the king, any thing that nature offered to her view of beautiful or rare in the royal gardens. F.C. a liberal education, not only in the more common accomplishments of the sex, but in the sciences and learned languages. Her singular attainments procured her, in 1732, the honourable title of Doctor of Philosophy. In 1745, she began to read lectures on experimental philosophy; which she continued to do till her death, in 1778. She married Dr. Joseph Verati. Watkins's Biographical Dictionary. BATILDA.