# Peter Adolf Hall > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Peter_Adolf_Hall > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Peter_Adolf_Hall.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Adolf_Hall > Source revision: 1328845876 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Peter Adolf Hall**, also known as PA Hall or Peter Adolphe Hall, (23 February 1739 in [Borås](/source/Bor%C3%A5s) – 15 May 1793 in [Liège](/source/Li%C3%A8ge)), was a Swedish-French artist who mainly devoted himself to [miniature painting](/source/Portrait_miniature). ## Early life 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](/source/Pehr_Wilhelm_Wargentin). Together with his younger brother [Birger Martin](/source/Birger_Martin_Hall), Hall studied medicine and 'natural history' between 1753-55 at [Uppsala University](/source/Uppsala_University)'s medical faculty where [Carl Linnaeus](/source/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](/source/Berlin) and [Hamburg](/source/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. ## Career In May 1766 Hall began to work as an artist in [Paris](/source/Paris). Three years later, at the age of 30, he was elected to the [French Academy of Fine Arts](/source/Acad%C3%A9mie_royale_de_peinture_et_de_sculpture). He painted portraits of the [Dauphin of France](/source/Dauphin_of_France), the prospective [Louis XVI](/source/Louis_XVI), as of his two brothers, who also would ascend the throne eventually, after the Revolution and the Napoleonic period, namely, [Louis XVIII](/source/Louis_XVIII) and [Charles X](/source/Charles_X_of_France). 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](/source/Livre_tournois). ## Family On 23 April 1771 he married a merchant's daughter, Marie Adelaïde Gobin (1752-1832), in the newly built parish church of [Saint-Louis](/source/Versailles_Cathedral) at [Versailles](/source/Versailles_(city)). They would in time have three daughters and a son. He encouraged his eldest daughter [Adélaïde Victoire Hall](/source/Ad%C3%A9la%C3%AFde_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). ## Exile Peter Adolf Hall was a strong supporter of [Jean-Jacques Rousseau](/source/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau)'s ideology. Among those who visited his home on the Rue du Petit-Reposoir in Paris were not only the art world participants and patrons but also the [Marquis of Lafayette](/source/Marquis_de_Lafayette). Hall was present at the [Storming of the Bastille](/source/Storming_of_the_Bastille) as a revolutionary officer. In 1791 he went into exile though and never reunited with his family in Paris ever again. His wife's inherited wealth was confiscated by the nation and a son-in-law married to the painter's first-born was torn to pieces by a mob six weeks after their wedding. Hall supported his family from abroad as best as he could, but died in Belgium a few years later. ## References - Lennart Andersson Palm: Peter Adolf Hall - The most famous borås author. In: Boras's history I (2005), pp. 173–78. - Karl Asplund: Peter Adolf Hall. A biographical sketch. National Museums Yearbook. (1938). - Karl Asplund: Peter Adolf Hall. In: Sixten Strömbom (eds): Five Great Gustavian (Collins, 1944) - Per Bjurström: Swedish artist lexicon (1957), Part III - Görel Cavalli-Björkman: Swedish miniature painting: an art book from National Museum (Raben & Sjogren, 1981) ISBN 91-29-55392-X - Torben Holck Colding: Aspects of Miniature Painting (Copenhagen, 1953) - Denis Diderot and others.: Reviews of Hall's works (1769–89), at the annual Paris salon group exhibition, from among others. a Mercure de France and L'Avantcourer. Although excerpts from General newspapers Halls activity in Paris. (Uppsala University Library, Manuscript Department, S-L Gahm-Persson collections (Dossier X 211). - Nils Forssell: Peter Adolf Hall and Boras. In: Boras's history 2 (1953), pp. 150–54. - Johan Fredrik Höckert: Peter Adolf Hall In Series: Champion of Swedish Art (6) (Malmo, 1950) p. 156 - Regine de Plinval the Guillebon: Pierre Adolphe Hall 1739-1793, Miniaturiste anglais, Peintre du Roi et des Enfants de France (Paris, 2000) - Oscar Levertin: Niklas Lafrensen D. Y. and relations between Swedish and French painting in the 1700s (the Royal Hofboktryckeriet, 1899). Section of Hall pages 52–63 and pages 158-163. - John Zaméo Lofgren: The miniatures of Peter Adolf Hall, PhD thesis, Univ of Oregon (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1976) p. 247 - Axel Sjöblom: Comments on Peter Adolf Hall's technology. In: Sixten Strömbom (eds): Five Great Gustavian (Collins, 1944) - Seth Tingvallsgatan: Peter Adolf Hall - Boras greatest son. In: The seven counties agree Yearbook (1960) - Fredric Villot: Hall, Celebre Miniaturiste You Xviii Siècle: Sa Vie, Ses oeuvres, Sa Correspondance (Paris 1867, 2010) ISBN 1145131085 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Peter Adolf Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Adolf_Hall) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Adolf_Hall?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.