Peter Scheemakers
Sculpture, Visual Artist
1691 – 1781
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Who was Peter Scheemakers?
Peter Scheemakers or Pieter Scheemaeckers II or the Younger was a Flemish sculptor who worked for most of his life in London, Great Britain where his public and church sculptures in a classicist style had an important influence on the development of sculpture.
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 as well as that to John Dryden in the same church.
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- Born
- Jan 16, 1691
Antwerp - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- County of Flanders
- Died
- Sep 12, 1781
Antwerp
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on July 23, 2013
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