Adélaïde Victoire Hall
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Adélaïde Victoire Hall, called Adèle (Paris
Paris
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, 11 May 1772 - Paris, 14 October 1844), was a Swedish-French artist and noble (marquise). She was an Agré
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 of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts
Royal Swedish Academy of Arts
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 (1793).

Hall was the daughter of the Swedish artist painter of the royal French court Peter Adolf Hall and Marie-Adélaïde Gobin. She was married in 1792 to the lawyer of the royal council, Francois Louis Seleau, who was murdered during the September massacres
September Massacres
The September Massacres were a wave of mob violence which overtook Paris in late summer 1792, during the French Revolution. By the time it had subsided, half the prison population of Paris had been executed: some 1,200 trapped prisoners, including many women and young boys...

 the same year, and to the officer Blaise Lievre de la Grange, marquess
Marquess
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 de Fourilles in 1796.

Her selfportrait in oil was shown to the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm in 1791. She was further more represented with her work at the art exhibitions of the academy in 1792 and 1793. She was also a miniaturist and painted on wood and porcelain cups.

Her selfportrait is kept at the Nationalmuseum in Sweden.
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