In that or the following year he settled in London, and in 1790 he exhibited 11 miniatures at the Royal Academy, including a portrait of Marie-Antoinette.
[2] Violet from 1798 showed drawings of domestic and fancy subjects at the Royal Academy, every year from 1798 to 1819.
His portraits of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, 1790, and George, Prince of Wales, 1791, and other works, were engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi.
Other portraits engraved from Violet's miniatures are those Hester Piozzi by Mariano Bovi, and Gaetano Bartolozzi by Thomas Tomkins.
A set of etchings of domestic subjects, worked over in stipple by Violet, was published by Moltens in 1810.