Louis Lie Perin-Salbreux (1753 Reims - 1817 ibidem) was the son of a cloth manufacturer in Reims, where he studied under Ganes, called Jean Clermont. At the age of 25 he went to Paris, where he became a student of Carles-Gabriel Lemmonier and Louis Sicardi and became friendly with Alexander Roslin, who is said to have advised him to specialise in miniature painting.

In fact, Perin excelled in this field, although he also did portraits in oils and in pastel. He exhibited at the Salon from 1793 to 1798 and seems to have rapidly gained success in Parisian aristocratic circles, a clientele he was forcibly deprived of by the Revolution. As in addition to that his personal fortune rapidly decreased because of the assignats. He returned to...