Henri-Pierre Danloux

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, who secured for him a number of important portrait commissions exclusively for the aristocracy. He emigrated to London in 1792 thereby escaping the French Revolution and its potential consequences.

Training under Nicolas Bernard Lépicié is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is visual arts. Work by Henri-Pierre Danloux is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Royal Museums Greenwich, Musée de l'Histoire de France, Saint-Germain-en-Laye Civic Museum and Cleveland Museum of Art.

While in England, he was commissioned for portraits of the officer class and the well-to-do. Members of one such family, the Lamberts of Oxfordshire, engaged the master in 1800 and had sittings for its individual members: father, mother and son (Henry John Lambert, Bt.), 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]. Danloux, returned to Paris in 1801, there resuming his career. He died in Paris in 1809. 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.

• Illustration — Le Baron de Besenval dans salon de compagnie at the Hôtel de Besenval • Illustration — Constantia Foster with her nephew, 1790s • Illustration — Épisode du Déluge, by Henri-Pierre Danloux (before 1802) • Illustration — A young boy pleading with his older sister for the return of his Polichinelle puppet, by Henri-Pierre Danloux (between 1770 and 1800) • Illustration — Madame de L'Horme and her son Jean-Louis, by Henri-Pierre Danloux (1801) • Illustration — Victor von Gibelin, chalk drawing by Henri-Pierre Danloux, portrayed in Paris in 1791, probably at the Hôtel de Besenval