Portrait of Scheemakers by Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont
Born
1691, Antwerp
Died
12 September 1781(1781-09-12) (aged 90), Antwerp
Nationality
Flemish
Known for
Sculpture
Notable work
Tomb monuments and garden statuary
Patron(s)
William Kent
Peter Scheemakers or Pieter Scheemaeckers II or the Younger (10 January 1691 – 12 September 1781)[1] was a Flemish sculptor who worked for most of his life in London. His public and church sculptures in a classicist style had an important influence on the development of modern sculpture in England.[2]
Scheemakers is perhaps best known for executing the William Kent-designed memorial to William Shakespeare which was erected in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey in 1740,[3] as well as that to John Dryden in the same church.[4]
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^Peter Scheemakers at online Encyclopædia Britannica
^"Poets' Corner: William Shakespeare". Westminster Abbey. Archived from the original on 26 July 2008.
^"John Dryden". Poets' Graves. Retrieved 22 October 2008.
completed by PeterScheemakers and Laurent Delvaux in partnership, and installed in Westminster Abbey in 1722. By 1726, his brother Henry Scheemakers had also...
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Richard Brodrepp in the church dates from 1739 and was designed by PeterScheemakers. The grounds and formal gardens are Grade II* listed. An Italianate...
rusticated arch, which frames a relief fashioned by the Flemish sculptor PeterScheemakers. The relief is a copy of the Poussin painting Et in arcadia ego and...
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or glade, a succession of picturesque tableaux. The statues are by PeterScheemakers. Among the most revealing and thought-provoking of the follies is...
1748 : Peter, Thomas-Henry, Marie-Louise, and Geneviève-Catherine. It was therefore Henry and Catherine Scheemakers who were Thomas Scheemakers' parents...
contain four life size sculptures (plaster copies of the originals by PeterScheemakers paid for in 1737, they were sold in 1921). They are Epaminondas (general)...
drew attention to the mysterious Shugborough inscription. Carved by PeterScheemakers, theories have abounded, including some which suggest it may indicate...
marble bust collection was formed when 14 busts from the sculptor PeterScheemakers were acquired by the college. Many of the busts are of great philosophers...
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Stanhope (1733) Westminster Abbey, to William Shakespeare, sculpted by PeterScheemakers (1740) Ashby-de-la-Zouch, to Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon...
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Marlborough room with those from Spencer House, one which was crafted by PeterScheemakers. Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, and George Romney...
translation of a memorial tablet in Latin in Bradford Cathedral carved by PeterScheemakers translates as " He was rightly counted among the most accomplished...
bust was commissioned by Robert Smith and sculpted posthumously by PeterScheemakers in 1758. Born (1682-07-10)10 July 1682 Burbage, Leicestershire, England...
Westminster Abbey, London, designed by William Kent and executed by PeterScheemakers (1740); and a statue in New York's Central Park by John Quincy Adams...
sculptor PeterScheemakers. He was buried in the family vault in St. Andrew's Church, Andrew St. The tomb was designed by PeterScheemakers. Photograph...
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