Henri-Pierre Danloux (1753 - 1809)  

• Was a French painter and draftsman.
• He was born in Paris.

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

• First Danloux was a pupil of Lépicié and later of Vien, whom he followed to Rome in 1775.

• In 1783, he returned to Lyon and Paris, where he was patroned by the Baronne Mégret de Sérilly d'Etigny.

• He emigrated to London in 1792 thereby escaping the French Revolution and its potential consequences.

• While in England, he was commissioned for portraits of the officer class and the well-to-do.

• Danloux, returned to Paris in 1801, there resuming his career.

• Danloux was influenced by fashionable English portrait painters such as Thomas Lawrence, John Hoppner, and George Romney.

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

• He died in Paris in 1809.

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