Henri-Pierre Danloux

After the early death of his parents, Danloux was brought up by his architect uncle, Guillaume-Elie Lefoullon.

In 1783, he returned to Lyon and Paris, where he was patroned by the Baronne Mégret de Sérilly d'Etigny, who secured for him a number of important portrait commissions exclusively for the aristocracy.

), himself, later in life, serving in the Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, a Deputy Lieutenant for Oxfordshire and High Sheriff [Peter Lambert from a letter - Pawsey & Payne, 1973].

[5][6][4] Danloux was influenced by fashionable English portrait painters such as Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), John Hoppner (1758–1810), and George Romney (1734–1802).

In 1793, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in London which resulted in commissions from a number of British patrons.