1785 - won the third medal in the painting category of the competition organized by the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. 1787 - travelled from Paris to London with the print publisher John Boydell where he enrolled as a student at the Royal Academy Schools. 1791 - engraved from his own drawing a portrait of Mademoiselle La Chevalière d'Eon de Beaumont, a notorious transvestite then resident in London, as Minerva.