Étienne Charles Le Guay (French, 1762–1846) was born at Sèvres to

the porcelain painter Étienne Henri Le Guay. He worked as a painter

and gilder at the Manufacture Impériale de Sèvres from 1771, and later

also for the porcelain factory of Dihl and Guerhard. Between 1795 and

1819, Le Guay exhibited miniature portraits at the Salon, some on

porcelain, and became known as one of the foremost miniaturists of his

time. He married his student Marie-Victoire Jaquotot in 1801. The

couple divorced in 1809.