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Alexander Roslin 's portrait of Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz made during the latter's stay in Paris in 1754 (in the collection of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts , Stockholm to which it was bequested by Adelcrantz)[ 1]
Events from the year 1754 in Sweden
- Foundation of the Stenborg Company , the first known Swedish language theater group to tour Sweden and Finland.
- The cause célèbre of Risbadstugan .
- New law on suicide : people who falsely admitted guilt or committed crimes with the intent of committing suicide through execution were to be punished by pillorying and imprisoned rather than executed.[ 2]
^ Alexander Roslin, ed. Magnus Olausson, p. 135
^ Ohlander, Ann-Sofie, Kärlek, död och frihet: historiska uppsatser om människovärde och livsvillkor i Sverige, Norstedt, Stockholm, 1985
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