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838840 [sic] of a good painter of that name, who lived at Brussels, both excelled in painting.

admired for her musical abilities and excellent singing. She likewise wrote good poetry. .

of a painter of that name, painted to perfection.

Latin, spoke several languages, and painted portraits and history. The most celebrated writers have agreed in praising the freshness of her colouring, and the purity of her designs. She went to London, and died there.

of a physician at Vernon; remarkable for the brilliancy of her wit, and her elegant taste for poetry. She was author of an Ode from the Dauphin to the King, which was very much admired, and soon after received from an unknown hand, supposed the former, a cocoa-nut box, in which was a golden lyre enamelled, with an ode in her praise. She died young, 1684.

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