Daniel Marot

[2] Daniel Marot brought the fully developed court style of Louis XIV to Holland, and later to London.

In the Dutch Republic, Marot was employed by the Stadthouder, who later became William III of England; in particular, he is associated with designing interiors in the palace of Het Loo, from 1684 on.

Though his name cannot be attached to any English building (and he does not have an entry in Howard Colvin's exhaustive Dictionary of British Architects) we know from his own engraving that he designed the great hall of audience for the States-General at the Hague.

[2] He also decorated many Dutch country-houses,[2] introducing the “salon” and popularizing ornamented ceilings in The United Provinces/ Netherlands.

In England his activities appear to have been concentrated at Hampton Court Palace, where he designed the garden parterres, which were swept away in the following generation and have been restored at the end of the 20th century.