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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY

dance, which, from her, the Greeks called Themelinos. From her also a sort of altar, antiently often used in the theatre, is concluded to have taken its appellation.

Female Worthies.



TIMARETE, Daughter and Scholar of Micon, junior, the Painter.

She drew a Diana, in Ephesus.

Pliny, lib. 35, cap. 6, and 11.



TINTORETTA (MARIETTA), of Venice, Daughter and Disciple of the famous Tintoret;

For a long time dressed as a man. She assisted her father in painting: she excelled in singing and music; and was so beloved by her father, that he could not bear to part with her, though the Emperor, the king of Spain, and other princes, invited her to their courts. She was always using her pencil, in portraits of ladies and cavaliers, copied exactly the works of her father, and made others of her own invention. But she died in the flower of her age, 1590, bitterly lamented by her father, and her husband, who was a German.

Abec. Pitt.



TOLLET (ELIZABETH), a Poetess of the 17th Century; Daughter of George Tollet, Esq. Commissioner of the Navy, in the Reigns of King William and Queen Anne.

She received a handsome fortune from her father, who also bestowed on her a liberal education. Besides great skill in music and drawing, she applied herself to the study of the Latin, Italian, and French languages, and

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