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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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The famous painter Chevalier de Rucas is in Potidam by order of the Prussian king, creating portraits of the royal family to universal court acclaim. He recently arrived from Brunswick-Wolfenbuttle, where his lifelike portrait of the late Duke moved the Duchess Dowager to tears, earning him a purse of 30 ducats.
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universal applause of the court; gained great reputation; made him a present of a purse of 30 ducats
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The Chevalier de Rucas is now at Potidam by Order of his Prussian Majesty, drawing the Pictures of all the Royal Family, in which he succeeds with the universal Applause of the Court. He is lately come thither from Brunswick-Wolfenbuttle, where he gain'd great Reputation by his Pieces, and especially by the Portrait of the late Duke, whom tho' he had never seen, and only drew him from the Representations given to him of his Person by other People; yet he has taken his Likeness so much to the Life, that the Duchess Dowager could not forbear shedding Tears, as soon as ever she saw it.