Background
Marquet was born in 1869 in Moonta, South Australia, the son of a French workman painter.
Marquet was born in 1869 in Moonta, South Australia, the son of a French workman painter.
The family later moved to the larger town of Wallaroo, South Australia, and the young Marquet attended Taplin"s Grammar School there.
After school, he initially worked as a miner, before obtaining work as a printer"s compositor. In this role he obtained a working knowledge of process engraving. Marquet married Ann Donnell at Street Mary"s Church in Wallaroo in June 1891, by which time he was already a skilled black and white artist.
In 1897, he obtained his first work as an artist, working as cartoonist in Quiz, a weekly magazine published in Adelaide.
In the following years, Marquet sold work to a variety of magazines, including The Bulletin, Tocsin, Table Talk (Australian newspaper), The Australian Worker and Melbourne Punch. With his career taking off, Marquet moved to Melbourne in 1902 and then to Sydney in 1906.
On 17 April 1920, Marquet and a companion were presumed drowned when a sailing boat they were travelling on sank during a sudden squall in Botany Bay. His body was never recovered.
Following his death, an anthology of his work in The Worker was published, featuring tributes from contemporaries including Henry Lawson, Mary Gilmore and C. J. Dennis.
