Henri-François Riesener

Riesener also painted the singers of the Opéra-Comique, and produced a portrait of his cousin André-Antoine Ravrio, a famous sculptor in bronze at Napoleon's court, which is now on show in the Musée du Louvre.

In 1807, he married Félicité Longrois, 'dame d'annonce' (lady in waiting) to empress Josephine.

He remained in Russia and Poland for seven years, staying in Moscow (1816–1823), Saint Petersburg and Warsaw.

He painted all the celebrities there and collaborated with Swebach-Desfontaines on an equestrian portrait of Alexander I of Russia.

He returned to Paris in 1823, and in the five years before his death in 1828, managed to give his son Léon his first lessons in drawing and gain him a position in Antoine-Jean Gros's studio, as well as gain his nephew, Eugène Delacroix, a place in the studio of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin.