Shortly after arrival, or perhaps on the way, he produced the portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, shown below.
[3] According to Robbins Landon, Guttenbrunn was successful in London, and his "name is encountered frequently in the newspapers".
Robbins Landon quotes an advertisement from the Morning Herald, 24 April 1794, which reads: (The Queen had been guillotined by the revolutionary government the previous year.)
In 1795, on the recommendation of the Russian envoy in London, he moved to St. Peterburg, then later to Moscow.
[6] The portrait shows Haydn in the act of composing: he is seated at a keyboard,[7] gazing into the distance, testing out notes with one hand and putting pen to paper with the other.