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Henri-Pierre Danloux was a French painter and draftsman.

Background

He was born in Paris.

Career

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. 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 (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.

Danloux died in Paris in 1809.