MAROT, DANIEL (1661–?), French architect, furniture designer and engraver, and the pupil of Jean le Pautre, was the son of Jean Marot (162o-1679), who was also an architect and engraver. He was born in Paris in 1661. He was a Huguenot, and was compelled by the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 to settle in Holland. His earlier work is of the second period of Louis XIV., but eventually it became tinged with Dutch in fluence, and in the end the English style called "Queen Anne" owed much to his manner. In Holland he was taken into the service of the Stadtholder, who, when he became William III. of Eng land, appointed him one of his architects and master of the works. He designed the great hall of audience for the States-General at The Hague and also decorated many Dutch country-houses. In England he concentrated upon the adornment of Hampton Court Palace. Among his plans for gardens is one inscribed : "Parterre d'Amton-court invente par D. Marot." Much of the furniture— especially the mirrors, gueridons and beds—at Hampton Court bears unmistakable traces of his authorship. Splendour and elabo ration are the outstanding characteristics of Marot's style, and he appears to have been responsible for some of the curious silver furniture which was introduced into England from France in the latter part of the 17th century. At Windsor Castle there is a silver
table, attributed to him, which is an exceedingly fine example of its type. During his life in France Marot made many designs for Andre Charles Boulle (q.v.), more especially for long case and bracket clocks which were intended to be mounted in chased and gilded bronze. Marot designed practically every detail in the in ternal ornamentation of the house—carved chimney-pieces, ceil ings, panels for walls, girandoles and wall brackets, and was also a prolific designer of gold and silver plate. Marot was still living in 1718, and the date of his death is unknown.
Much of our knowledge of his work is obtained from the volume of his designs published at Amsterdam in 1712: Oeuvres du Sieur D. Marot, architecte de Guillaume III. Roi de hi Grande Bretagne, and to Receuil des planches des sieurs Marot, pere et fils. In addition to decorative work these books contain prints of scenes in Dutch history, and engravings of the statues and vases, produced by Marot, at the Palace of Loo. See also Das Ornamentwerk des Daniel Marot with preface by P. Jenssen (1892).