HUGIJENOT ARTISTS DESIGNERS AND CRAYPSNEN IN GREAT ...

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There is, however, concrete evidence that Daniel Marot was in
this country between 169k and 1696. In a letter to his brother Christian,
dated April 13, 169 1+, Constantijn Huygens wrote,
'Ce pacquetboate qui a este pris eat le mesme avec lequel Je suis venu
icy. Le capitaine s'appelle Stevens. Le pauvre Marot mand( par la Reine,
pour venir id, y a est(fait prisonnier aussi'.5
In April, 169k, on his way to England, Marot was captured by the French,
but by October, 1694, he was certainly in London, and his marriage to
Catherine Marie Gole on 23rd October, is recorded in the registers of
the Huguenot church of Leicester Fields. On 16th June, 1695 a son,
Daniel, was baptized in the same church, and by June, 1696, Daniel
had acquired a younger sister Marianne. 6
During the two years in which presence in this country
is documented, it is probable that he was working for his royal patron.
It is of interest that Huygens describes Marot as having come to EnJDnd
at the invitation of the Queen, and it is not therefore surprising to
find that Marot was responsible for redecorating the Queen's Water
Gallery at Hampton Court. This was a tudor [building, situated at the
river end of the Privy Garden. As redecorated by Marot, it consisted
of a marble room, a japan lacquered room, a. looking glass room, and a
porcelain room lined with blue and white tiles which were made at the
Deift factory under the supervision of Adrian Koex, but also to Daniel
Marot's designs. Marot was also responsible for a Dairy 'with all
conveniences in which her Majestytook great delight', which was also
decorated with tiles from Delft.The obvious pr cedent for this type
of decoration was the Trianon de Porcelaine at .ersailles.
However by 28th December, 1694, Queen Mary was dead,and both the
Water Gallery and the Dairy were later destroyed by William III. Did
Marot spend the rest of his time in England working for his royal
patron, and was he perhaps responsible for the interior decoration at
Hanipton Court, as he had been at Het Loo? The whole question is further
complicated by the fact that Marot's second son was baptized in
Amsterdam on Sepl, er 1, 1697, by which date Marot had"presuinably ret-
urned to Holland, permanently. This suggesition is reinforced by the
fact that a record of the Council of Nassau Demesne mentions ' a letter