Hall, Peter Adolf - Two Famous French Beauties (miniature) - art postcard c.1910

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: Two Famous French Beauties
• Artist (if known): Pierre Adolphe Hall [Peter Adolf Hall]
• Media or other details:  miniature painting
• Publisher / Gallery: Max Etlinger & Co. Ltd., c.1910s
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): n/a
• Size: old standard size
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Stock No.: A728

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Peter Adolf Hall, also known as PA Hall or Peter Adolphe Hall, (23 February 1739, in Borås – 15 May 1793, in Liège), was a Swedish-French artist who mainly devoted himself to miniature painting.

Hall was born to a merchant and magistrate in Borås, who was also a Member of Parliament, Petter Börjesson Hall (1707-1776) and Eva Margareta. Eva was an older cousin of the astronomer Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin. Together with his younger brother Birger Martin, Hall studied medicine and 'natural history' between 1753-55 at Uppsala University's medical faculty where Carl Linnaeus taught. In the following years, 1755-59, the brothers went on a period-style educational journey in Europe under the guidance of a teacher, Mr. Lars Brisman. In Berlin and Hamburg, Peter Adolf acquainted himself both with playing music and took a liking to the visual arts. To his father's chagrin, he started working in enamel and miniature painting instead of becoming a doctor.

In May 1766 Hall began to work as an artist in Paris. Three years later, at the age of 30, he was elected to the French Academy of Fine Arts. He painted portraits of the Dauphin of France, the prospective Louis XVI, as of his two brothers, who also would ascend the throne eventually, after the Revolution and the Napoleonic period, namely, Louis XVIII and Charles X. Peter Adolf Hall was then appointed a court painter or Peintre du Roi et des Enfants de France. According to an account book kept by his wife, between the years 1782-87 Hall painted an average of 70 portraits a year, of nobilities in general and people from the fashionable society. His annual income was around 25,000 livres.

He married April 23, 1771 with a merchant's daughter Marie Adelaïde Gobin (1752-1832) in the newly built parish church of Saint-Louis at Versailles. They would in time have three daughters and a son. He encouraged his eldest daughter Adélaïde Victoire Hall's talent for visual arts, and played the flute with his second daughter, the musical Angélique Lucie Hall (1774-1819) who played the piano. His third daughter was named Adolphine Mélanie Isabelle Hall (1777-1852) and the fourth child was the son Gabriel Hippolyte Adolphe Hall (1780-1833).

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