Peter Scheemakers or Pieter Scheemaeckers II or the Younger (10 January 1691 – 12 September 1781) was a

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sculptor who worked for most of his life in London. His public and church sculptures in a

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style had an important influence on the development of modern sculpture in England.Peter Scheemakers
at online Encyclopædia Britannica Scheemakers is perhaps best known for executing the

William Kent William Kent (c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an English architect, landscape architect, painter and furniture designer of the early 18th century. He began his career as a painter, and became Principal Painter in Ordinary or court painter, but ...

-designed memorial to

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which was erected in

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in 1740, as well as that to

John Dryden '' John Dryden (; – ) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the per ...

in the same church.

Biography

Early life

Peter Scheemakers the Younger was born in

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

and baptised Pieter-Caspar Scheemaekers at the Sint-Jacobskerk or

St. James' Church, Antwerp St. James' Church ( nl, Sint-Jacobskerk) is a former Collegiate church in Antwerp, Belgium. The church is built on the site of a hostel for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela. The present building is the work of the Waghemakere family and Rombo ...

on 10 January 1691, son of sculptor Peter Scheemaekers aka

Pieter Scheemaeckers Pieter Scheemaeckers, Pieter Scheemackers, Pieter Scheemaeckers I or Pieter Scheemaeckers the Elder (alternative spellings and form of first name: Peter, Peeter and Petrus) (1640, Antwerp – 1714, Antwerp) was a Flemish sculptor who playe ...

and Catharina van der Hulst (d.1712). His eldest brother Hendrik (Henry) Scheemakers' baptism has not been found, but Peter's other siblings were: Catharina baptised 1 October 1688 (died young), Elisabeth baptised 6 July 1693 (still living when Peter wrote his Will in 1771), Jan-Frans baptised 2 February 1696 (ditto), and another Catharina baptised 20 March 1698 (died before 1771 leaving one daughter), all baptised at the St Jacobskerk in Antwerp. Peter followed his father as a sculptor, and joined his elder brother

Henry Scheemakers Henry Scheemakers (birth name: Hendrik Scheemaekers) (Flanders c.1686 - Paris, 18 July 1748) was a Flemish-born sculptor who worked in England and France in the first half of the 18th century.Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

, Denmark, for the court sculptor Johann Adam Sturmberg (1683–1741), for two years 1718-1720.Helena Bussers and Ingrid Roscoe. "Scheemakers."
Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 27 Mar. 2014; See also Alain Jacobs (1999), ''Laurent Delvaux 1696-1778'', Paris, Arthena, 1999, ''passim''. It is said that in 1715 Peter walked from Copenhagen to Rome (over 1500 km) where he studied both classical and

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styles of sculpture.

London, 1720-1730

In about 1720 Scheemakers settled in London where he befriended fellow Flemish sculptor, Gent-born

Laurent Delvaux Laurent Delvaux (1696, in Ghent – 24 February 1778, in Nivelles) was a Flemish sculptor. After a successful international career that brought him to London and Rome, he returned to the Austrian Netherlands where he was a sculptor to the cour ...

(1696-1778), who had been in London since 1717 on the recommendation of his former Master, Antwerp-born

Pierre-Denis Plumier Pierre-Denis Plumier (4 March 1688 – 24 February 1721) was a Flemish sculptor. Biography Plumier was born in Antwerp in 1688, the son of Franciscus Puymier and Anna Schobbens. In 1699 he was apprenticed to the sculptor Louis Willemsen in Antw ...

. At the time, Pierre-Denis Plumier was still in Brussels, but he came to London in early 1721 with his family, intending to settle permanently. Plumier had started on a funerary monument to John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, when he died only a few months after his arrival. The monument was completed by Peter Scheemakers and Laurent Delvaux in partnership, and installed in

in 1722. By 1726, his brother Henry Scheemakers had also settled in London, in Old Palace Yard in St Margaret's Westminster, staying here until he moved to Paris in the mid-1730s. Scheemakers and Delvaux then entered into a formal partnership and set up a workshop in

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, south of

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in London, in 1723. Their workshop produced many sober classical monuments and garden statuary in the Antique style. However, in order to finance their long-planned trips to study both antique and recent masterpieces in Rome, the two partners sold their stock in April 1728, including 30 items Delvaux had inherited from Plumier on marrying his widow in 1726, and the two sculptors travelled to Rome in 1728. Delvaux stayed in Rome until 1733 when he was appointed Court Sculptor in Brussels, but Scheemakers stayed only two years before returning to England in 1730.

London, 1730-1771

Upon his return Scheemakers restarted the Millbank workshop in St Martin's Lane. His 'ideal' classical sculptures became very popular with the landowning class and the city merchants. He moved his workshop twice more: first to

Old Palace Yard Old Palace Yard is a paved open space in the City of Westminster in Central London, England. It lies between the Palace of Westminster to its north and east and Westminster Abbey to its west. It is known as the site of executions, including those ...

in St Margaret's Westminster in 1736 and then in 1740 to

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in St James's where he stayed until he retired in 1771. Scheemakers worked for a time with

Francis Bird Francis Bird (1667–1731) was one of the leading English sculptors of his time. He is mainly remembered for sculptures in Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral. He carved a tomb for the dramatist William Congreve in Westminster Abbey and s ...

, and his brother Henry Scheemakers was in partnership with

Henry Cheere Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet (1703 – 15 January 1781) was a renowned English sculptor and monumental mason.George Edward Cokayne, ed., ''The Complete Baronetage'', 5 volumes (no date, c.1900); reprint, (Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983) ...

for a few years. Peter taught

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Biographical details
at the

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and

Thomas Banks Thomas Banks (29 December 1735 – 2 February 1805) was an important 18th-century English sculptor. Life The son of William Banks, a Surveyor (surveying), surveyor who was land steward to the Duke of Beaufort, he was born in London. He was e ...

. In 1750 he took as apprentice sculptor

Joseph Nollekens Joseph Nollekens R.A. (11 August 1737 – 23 April 1823) was a sculptor from London generally considered to be the finest British sculptor of the late 18th century. Life Nollekens was born on 11 August 1737 at 28 Dean Street, Soho, London, ...

(1737-1823), son of fellow Antwerp-born artist

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(1702-1748), who stayed on as journeyman before leaving for Rome around 1762. Nollekens must have remained close to Peter's Vine Street successor, his nephew

Thomas Scheemakers Thomas Scheemakers (c. 1740 – 15 July 1808), or Thomas Scheemaeckers according to his own signature, was a sculptor in late 18th-century London. He was the last of the Scheemaeckers family of sculptors originally from Antwerp. Several of his wor ...

, as Thomas appointed Nollekens as one of his executors. Peter Scheemakers had married Barbara La Fosse but they had no children. His brother, sculptor

Henry Scheemakers Henry Scheemakers (birth name: Hendrik Scheemaekers) (Flanders c.1686 - Paris, 18 July 1748) was a Flemish-born sculptor who worked in England and France in the first half of the 18th century.Pierre Scheemackers Pierre Scheemackers (c.1728 - 1765) was a sculptor in mid-18th century Paris. A member of the Scheemaeckers family of sculptors from Antwerp and of Flemish descent through both his parents, Pierre Scheemackers was born in London but grew up and ...

(c.1728-1765), remained in Paris where he became a professor at the

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, but died shortly afterwards in 1765. Henry's younger son Thomas-Henry known as

(c.1740-1808) left Paris to join his uncle Peter in London, leasing the workshop in Vine Street after Peter retired in 1771, and referred to at his death in 1808 as "Thomas Scheemakers of Vine Street, Statuary".

Later years

Peter Scheemakers retired in 1771, aged 80, his wife Barbara having died in 1768, and returned to live with his siblings Elisabeth and Francis in their native town of Antwerp. He died there in September 1781 and was buried in the same church in which he had been baptised over 90 years earlier. Peter Scheemakers "native of Antwerp but now of Vine Street in the parish of St James Westminster, Statuary" had signed his Will in London on 19 June 1771, witnessed by William Lister and Sarah Whip. Probate was granted on 24 September 1781. His bequests were 10 guineas to Peter's mason Christopher Finny; the same to Mr Vandermeulen, Statuary; and the same again to Mr Dennis Byrne. 20 guineas to his servant. £50 to his niece Anna-Maria Vandiepenbeeck; the same to Mr James Bucher ic haberdasher of Pall Mall, who was also appointed sole executor. All the rest of Peter's effects in England were to be divided equally into four parts and distributed between his 4 siblings or if deceased, their descendants: ¼ to sister Elisabeth Scheemaekers, ¼ to brother Frans (Jan-Frans) Scheemaekers, ¼ to niece Anna-Maria Vandiepenbeeck as sole child of deceased sister Catharina, ¼ to be shared equally between the surviving children of deceased brother Henry viz. nephew Thomas Scheemakers and Thomas's two sisters Marie-Louise and Genevieve-Catherine. These provisions confirm that Peter was childless and that

, the London sculptor hitherto assumed to be his son and sole heir, was Peter's nephew and received just 1/12th of Peter's estate.

Works

Westminster Abbey

Peter Scheemakers created 16 works – monuments, figures, busts and tombs – for Westminster Abbey alone, of which 15 are still in situ: * Monument to

(1740), Peter Scheemakers' most admired work. However, as this was designed by

, the admiration for design and execution should rightly be shared. * Monument to

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, (7 April 164824 February 1721) was an English poet and Tory politician of the late Stuart period who served as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council. He was also known by his o ...

d.Feb 1721. Based on Plumier's design which he started, but completed by Peter Scheemakers and Laurent Delvaux after Plumier's unexpected death. Dedicated in 1722. * Monument to Dr

Hugh Chamberlen Hugh Chamberlen the elder ( – after 1720) was an English royal physician, obstetrician and writer on finance. Life The eldest son of Peter Chamberlen the third by his marriage with Jane, eldest daughter of Sir Hugh Myddelton, bart., he was bor ...

d.June 1728, paid for by the widowed Duchess of Buckingham, and also executed in collaboration with Laurent Delvaux. * Monument to Admiral Sir

Charles Wager Admiral Sir Charles Wager (24 February 1666 – 24 May 1743) was a Royal Navy officer and politician who served as First Lord of the Admiralty from 1733 to 1742. Despite heroic active service and steadfast administration and diplomatic service, ...

* Monument to Vice-Admiral Watson * Monument to Lt. General Percy Kirke * Monument to

George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe George Augustus Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe (c. 1725 – 6 July 1758) was a career officer and a brigadier general in the British Army. He was described by James Wolfe as "the best officer in the British Army". He was killed in the French and Ind ...

* Monument to

General Monck George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle JP KG PC (6 December 1608 – 3 January 1670) was an English soldier, who fought on both sides during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A prominent military figure under the Commonwealth, his support was cru ...

, also designed by William Kent and executed by Peter Scheemakers * Monument to Sir Henry Belasyse * Bust of

(1720) * Bust of Dr

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(1754) * Memorial to Thomas Jordan (1736) * Memorial to

Lord Aubrey Beauclerk Lord Aubrey Beauclerk (c. 1710 – 22 March 1741) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He saw service during the War of the Austrian Succession and was killed at the Battle of Cartagena de Indias. Early naval service Lord Aubrey was born circa ...

(1741) * Memorial to Admiral Sir

John Balchen Admiral of the White Sir John Balchen (2 February 1670 – 4 October 1744), sometimes written as Balchin, was an officer of the British Royal Navy with a long and distinguished career during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. In the course ...

(1744) * Memorial to

William Horneck William Horneck (1685-1746) was a British Army engineer of German descent. Life The son of the German-born preacher Anthony Horneck, he learned military science under John Churchill and designed works in Britain, Newfoundland, Minorca and els ...

* Tomb of Dr

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(d.1728) * Tomb of Magdalen Walsh (d.1747). The latter was relocated due to the placement of the Memorial to the Armed Forces in 2008.

Other works in England

Statue Of Thomas Guy-Guys Hospital-London

*Monument to Sir Michael Warton (c.1730) in

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*Monument to

Montague Garrard Drake Montague Garrard Drake (1692–1728), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1713 and 1728. Life Drake was the only surviving son of Montagu Drake MP of Shardeloes, n ...

(c.1730) in

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*Monument to Sir Thomas Hodgson (1732) in Barnby-upon-Don, Yorkshire *Monument to William Douglas (1732) in St Lawrence's Church in

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*Monument to Sir John Potenger and his wife Philadelphia Ernle (1733) in

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, Wiltshire *Statue of

Thomas Guy Thomas Guy (1644 – 27 December 1724) was a British bookseller, investor in the South Sea Company, member of Parliament, and the founder of Guy's Hospital, London. Early life Thomas Guy was born in Horselydown in Southwark, in south London, th ...

(1734) in the courtyard of

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, London *Equestrian Statue of William III (1734) in

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*Statue of Sir

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(1737) for

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*Statue of King

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(1737) in St Thomas's Hospital, London *Memorial (with busts) to Sir

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and his wife (1737) in John the Baptist Church in

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*Memorial to Lady Newton of

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(1737) in

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Parish Church, Lincolnshire *Memorial to Lord and Lady Curzon of

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(1737) in

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Parish Church, Derbyshire *Memorial to

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(1737) in Stoughton, Leicestershire *Memorial to Charles Fleetwood (1737) in

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*Memorial to

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(1737) in Lamport, Northamptonshire *Memorial to Dr Samuel Palmer FRS (1738) in

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Parish Church *Memorial to Mary daughter of

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(1739) in

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, Berkshire *Statue of Marwood Turner (1739) in

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, Yorkshire *Bust of

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(1739) in the

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*Memorial to

Lady Elizabeth Hastings Lady Elizabeth Hastings (19 April 1682 – 21 December 1739), also known as Lady Betty, was an English philanthropist, religious devotee and supporter of women's education. She was an intelligent and energetic woman, with a wide circle of conn ...

(1739) in

Ledston Ledston is a village and civil parish north of Castleford and east of Leeds in the county of West Yorkshire, England. The village is in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough. It had a population of 400 in 2001, which decreased slightly to 3 ...

, West Yorkshire *Memorial to

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(1740) in

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*Bust of

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(1740) at

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*Tomb of Admiral Salmon Morrice (1740) in St Mary's Church in

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, Kent *Tomb of Susanna Hare (1741) in

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, Norfolk *Tomb of

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(1742) in

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*Tomb of Sir Christopher Powell, 4th Baronet (1742) in

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, Kent *Various statues (including the Dying Gladiator) (1743) at

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, Oxfordshire *Grave of Sir Michael Newton of

(1746) in

, Lincolnshire *Tomb of Samuel Rolle (1746) in

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Parish Church, Devon *Bust of King Edward (1747) at

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*Tomb of Thomas Lewis (1747) in

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, Hampshire *Tomb of Admiral John Norris (1750) in St George's Church in

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, Kent *Tomb of John Whitbread (grandfather of Samuel Whitbread) (1750) in

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*Tomb of Sir Brook Bridges (1752) in Goodnestone, Kent *Tomb of Robert Tothill and his wife (1753) in

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, Wiltshire *Tomb of Sir Jemmet Raymond (1754) in

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, Berkshire *Tomb of Margaret Verney, Lady Feversham (1755) in

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*Tomb of Lord Raymond (1756) at

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, Hertfordshire *Bust of

Roger Cotes Roger Cotes (10 July 1682 – 5 June 1716) was an English mathematician, known for working closely with Isaac Newton by proofreading the second edition of his famous book, the '' Principia'', before publication. He also invented the quadratur ...

(1758) in

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*Bust of Dr Robert Smith (1758) in Trinity College, Cambridge *Grave of Sir

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(1759) in St Mary Magdalene Church in

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*Tomb of Sir George Petre (1759) in St Mary's Church in Studley, Warwickshire *Bust of Sir Paul Methuen (1764) at

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in Wiltshire *Statues of Admiral Sir

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and General Laurence (1764) in the

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in London *Statuary group of Cain killing Abel (c.1760) at

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, London *Bust of

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(1766) in Trinity College, Cambridge *Tom of

Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, (1 December 16906 March 1764) was an English lawyer and politician who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. He was a close confidant of the Duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister between 1754 and 1 ...

(1766) in

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, Cambridgeshire *Bust of Edward Wortley Montagu (1766) in Trinity College, Cambridge *Busts of both the 3rd and 4th

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(DNK) at St Giles House, Dorset *Tablet to Mary Gardiner (died 1748) in

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(signature visible on monument) Further works include memorials to the 1st and 2nd Dukes of Ancaster at

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, Lincolnshire; Lord Chancellor Hardwicke at

, Cambridgeshire; the

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, his wives and daughters, at

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, Bedfordshire; the

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, at Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; and the figure on the sarcophagus to Montague Sherrard Drake, at

, Buckinghamshire. Another example of his work is the memorial to Topham Foote (or Foot) in the parish church of

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. This burial monument, which includes the young man's bust and the Foote family crest, greets visitors in the main High Street entrance, from the

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gate to

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. There is also a memorial to Sir

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, 1736–37 in the church.

Ireland

In 1743, Mary Coghill erected the parish church of Clonturk (now

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) in memory of her brother

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, and placed in it a statue of her brother by Scheemakers. He also was the sculptor of fourteen of the busts in the Long Room of the

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in Dublin, including

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John Milton John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem '' Paradise Lost'', written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political ...

John Locke John Locke (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism ...

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the estab ...

Homer Homer (; grc, Ὅμηρος , ''Hómēros'') (born ) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the ...

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

and

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On banknotes

Between 1970 and 1993, an image of Scheemakers's Shakespeare statue appeared on the reverse of Series D £20 notes issued by the

Bank of England The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694 to act as the English Government's banker, and still one of the bankers for the Government of ...

. Alongside the statue was an engraving of the balcony scene from ''Romeo and Juliet''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Scheemakers, Peter 1691 births 1781 deaths British sculptors British male sculptors Flemish Baroque sculptors Belgian Roman Catholics English Baroque sculptors Portraits of William Shakespeare Artists from Antwerp Belgian expatriates in England Belgian expatriates in Italy