HUGIJENOT ARTISTS DESIGNERS AND CRAYPSNEN IN GREAT ...

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Derignee, and indeed Jean Pelletier and Francis Lapierre, where the latter
was responsible for producing a carved object, probably made by yet
another Huguenot carver, which was then gilded by Pelletier. The craft
of gilding was in itself a seperate profession, Rene Cousin and his
assistant Peter Cousin were working at Whitehall, Hampton Court and
Windsor in the 160's as assistants to both Verrio and Grinling Gibbons
in this capacity A gilder's role was to unite the different art forms of
carving and decorative painting which were frequently en in juxtoposition.
Although under James II, flene Cousin received payment for 'Repairing the
Ends of the Picture frame in front of the Altar' in the Queen's Chapel
at Windsor, there is only one other reference to his having worked as
a carver; although a payment is recorded in the accounts at Petworth
for 1690 to 'Mr.Cousine for a frame for the head of a man'
In 1 699-1700 Jean Pelletier was paid 'For carving and guilding
k Frames for four marble Tables at £28 each', 'For carving and. guilding
the six pair of large stands at 301 a pair' and 'For mending k guilt Frames'
( 1f) at Hampton Court(Plat,12) 6 .Pe1letier's earliest account for
Ralph Montagu consists solely of gilding. In 1690, Pelletier charged
Montagu £1.2.0.'For gilding Four lyons paws for a large walnut tree press';
in 1691 £2.lOs for 'gilding a scroll for a spring clock in 1/hitehall'
and in 1693 'f or gilding five large frames for five landakips of Mr.
Rousseau at £6.10 a frame 7.Pe11etier's next bill for Montagu, which is
contemporary with his work at Hampton Court, includes both carving and
gilding. Pelletier provided pear-tree frames for 'The four evangelists t and
the 'four landskips of Poussin'; cut 'twelve Ebony frames new blacked
& polished for the small heads of Vandyck' iid practised different types
of gilding according to the object to be tr ated. Thus in May 1706 , Pelletier
charged £120 'For gilding the body of a chariot and the carriage and for
painting the ground green, f or the Marchioness of Monthermer', and for
gilding the great coach carriage & with a red ground' and in 1708 he
charged £14. 'For gilding a Dressing plate in Water goldl Pelletier
was also prepared to help out with more banal features of ..he decoration
such as carving 'four Capitals and the cornishes and ALrchitrave for
two doors under the Cloisters at Montagu House', for which he charged £5.
and for carving two festoons that are over the two niches in the !oom
called the vestibule at Ditton for £5.10.Q. It is interesting to note
that Pelletier's erstwhile associate at Kensington, Robert DeriFnee
was also employed by Montagu in 17 07, when he was paid £10.0.0. for