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	Peter Scheemakers
		Peter Scheemakers (1691 - 1781) was a Flemish sculptor who worked for most of his life in London.
		Scheemakers studied in Rome in the late 1720s before settling in London.
		Scheemakers brother, Henry Scheemakers[?], and his son, Thomas Scheemakers, were both also sculptors.
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	Peter Scheemakers - LoveToKnow 1911
		PETER SCHEEMAKERS (1691-1770), Flemish sculptor, was born in Antwerp, and learnt his art from his father and from Delvaux.
		After visiting Denmark and walking thence to Rome for purposes of study, he returned on foot to the port of embarcation for England, but stayed in London but a short while.
		Although less esteemed as an artist than Rysbrack and Roubiliac, Scheemakers was a very popular and widely-employed sculptor in his day, whose influence was considerable; he was the master of Nollekens, and left a son, Thomas Scheemakers, who produced a considerable amount of work, and exhibited in the Royal Academy from 1782-1804.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Peter_Scheemakers (299 words)

	Peter Scheemakers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter Scheemakers (1691 - 1781) was a Flemish sculptor who worked for most of his life in London.
		Scheemakers studied in Rome in the late 1720s before settling in London.
		Scheemakers brother, Henry Scheemakers, and his son, Thomas Scheemakers, were both also sculptors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Scheemakers (179 words)

	Scheemakers Peter - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Scheemakers, Peter (1691-1781), Flemish sculptor who spent most of his career in England.
		This highly important 18th century marble vase by the Flemish sculptor Peter Scheemakers combines elements of classical Greek and Roman styles to produce a sublime neo...
		Peter Scheemakers (1691 1781) was a Flemish Roman Catholic sculptor who worked for most of his life in London.
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	Peter Scheemakers -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Peter Scheemakers (1691 - 1781) was a (One of two official languages of Belgium; closely related to Dutch) Flemish (An artist who creates sculptures) sculptor who worked for most of his life in (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London.
		Scheemakers studied in (Capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire) Rome in the late 1720s before settling in London.
		Scheemakers was the teacher of (Click link for more info and facts about Joseph Nollekens) Joseph Nollekens, among others.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/peter_scheemakers.htm (247 words)

	Joseph Nollekens - LoveToKnow 1911
		JOSEPH NOLLEKENS (1737-1823) British sculptor, was born on the 11th of August 1737 in Dean Street, Soho, London, where his father, a native of Antwerp, the " old Nollekens " of Horace Walpole, was a painter of some repute.
		In his thirteenth year he entered the studio of the sculptor Peter Scheemakers, and practised drawing and modelling with great assiduity, ultimately gaining various prizes offered by the Society of Arts.
		In 1760 he went to Rome, and he executed a marble bas-relief, " Timoclea before Alexander," which obtained a prize of fifty guineas from that society in 1762.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Joseph_Nollekens (219 words)

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		PETER SCHEEMAKERS SCHEEMAKERS, PETER (1691-1770), Flemish sculptor, was born in Antwerp, and learnt his art from his father and from Delvaux.
		Topographical drawing of a bas-relief 11 Peter Scheemakers LEDSHAM (Yorks): Church of All Saints Preliminary design for a monument to Lady Elizabeth Hastings, c.
		Peter Scheemakers, known for his works in Westminster Abbey, sculpted the bust of Topham in an agreement with Dr. Richard Mead.
	peter_scheemakers.iqexpand.com (399 words)

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		SCHEEMAKERS, PETER (1691–1770), Flemish sculptor, was born in Antwerp, and learnt his art from his father and from Delvaux.
		After visiting Denmark and walking thence to Rome for purposes of study, he returned on foot to the port of embareation for England, but stayed in London but a short while.
		Although less esteemed as an artist than Rysbrack and Roubiliac, Scheemakers was a very popular and widely-employed sculptor in his day, whose influence was considerable; he was the master of Nollekens, and left a son, Thomas Scheemakers, who produced a considerable amount of work, and exhibited in the Royal Academy from 1782–1804.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=59359 (258 words)

	Joseph Nollekens
		Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823) was a sculptor from London, England generally considered to be the finest British sculptor of the late 18th century.
		He studied first under Peter Scheemakers before studying and working as an antiques dealer, restorer and copier in Rome from 1759 to 1770.
		Returning to England he became one of the most fashionable portrait sculptors in the country.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/Joseph_Nollekens.html (140 words)

	Fitzwilliam Museum - OPAC Record
		Scheemakers, Peter possibly after (sculptor) [ULAN info: 1691-1781]
		This is a late example of a figure which was made on a low scrolled base in the late 1750s,and later on a rectangular base with cut corners and fluted sides.
		The model for Milton may have been derived from a terracotta by Peter Scheemakers, now lost, but known from his sale catalogue of 8 May 1756, in which it was lot 23.
	www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk /opacdirect/42723.htm (756 words)

	History of BRITISH ART (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Isaac Oliver dies in 1617 and is followed as painter to the English court by his son Peter.
		Peter Scheemakers moves from Antwerp to London at the same period as Rysbrack.
		Some ten or fifteen years after the arrival of Rysbrack and Scheemakers, a French sculptor moves to London and soon outshines his Flemish predecessors.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad13 (1546 words)

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	Captain Cook's long journey to elysium: the monument to
		Stowe's Elysian Fields centre on the Temple of the British Worthies, with busts of the eight men of letters and the seven men and one woman of action considered by Cobham and his nephews most deserving of a place in Elysium (Fig.
		Amongst the former are Sir Isaac Newton, William Shakespeare and John Milton, by Michael Rysbrack (1694-1770); and amongst the latter, Queen Elizabeth, Sir Walter Raleigh and Edward the Black Prince, by Peter Scheemakers (1691-1781).
		So, at Stowe, Cook's place is not in the Elysian Fields with the British Worthies, but in the vestibule to the underworld, pacing along the banks of the fl river, waiting for a hundred years before being allowed to cross into Elysium.
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	The Chicheley Chapel, Wimpole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On the left of Sir Thomas Chicheley's tomb, is the monument designed and executed by Peter Scheemakers to commemorate the Hon Charles Yorke (1722-1770) [= Yorke Family Tree], his first wife Catherine Yorke (née Freeman) (died 1759) [= Yorke Family Tree] and his second wife Agneta Yorke (née Johnston) (died 1820) [= Yorke Family Tree].
		The monument in white marble was designed by James 'Athenian' Stuart and sculptured by Peter Scheemakers.
		James Stuart wrote to Thomas Anson, "...on one side is Minerva, not the warlike but the eloquent, and therefore instead of the lance she holds a caduceus [the rod of hermes]...
	www.wimpole.info /chapel.htm (2586 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: William_Herschel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In June 1785, due to damp conditions, he and Caroline moved to Clay Hall in Old Windsor.
		Clay Hall (or Clayhall Farm) had been owned by Samuel Foote, father of Topham Foote whose bust by Peter Scheemakers is in Windsor Parish Church.
		Topham's mother sold the farm to her brother Richard Topham who willed it to Sidney Bleuclerk.
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	Yale Center for British Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Major figures from continental Europe and America painted for British patrons or spent periods of their careers in Britain.
		Among those featured in the collection are Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck (both working at the Court of King Charles I), Canaletto and Pompeo Batoni (both much patronized by British grand tourists), Johann Zoffany, and the great Americans John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, and James McNeill Whistler.
		The Center’s growing collection of sculpture is especially strong in works by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists such as Peter Scheemakers, Louis-Francois Roubiliac, Joseph Nollekens, and Francis Chantrey.
	ycba.yale.edu /collections/coll_p-s-index.html (410 words)

	ALTHORP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		To the right of the Scheemakers chimneypiece is a sideboard supplied by John King in 1791.
		He was the original art connoisseur of the family and brought back some of the original paintings seen in the collection.
		The chimneypieces both come from the Spencer House; the right-hand one with hanging fruit panels from the Rubens Room and the other by the brilliant Peter Scheemakers (1691-1781), from the Palm Room.
	www.althorp.com /house-grounds/marlborough-room.asp (397 words)

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		Scheemakers, Peter (1691-1770) Flemish sculptor, creaor of the statue of Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey.
		In 1740 Scheemakers was commisioned to sculpt Shakespeare in the Abbey's "Poet's Corner" as part of a memorial designed by the architect William Kent (1684-1748) and financed by a pulic suscription.
		He based his depiction of the playwright on the Chandos portrait.
	hjem.get2net.dk /mahler/port_scheemaker.html (136 words)

	Windows on Warwickshire - Theme Explorer
		This design was produced for the building designed by Harris, Martin and Harris of Birmingham and opened in 1883 to house a branch of the Birmingha...
		Modelled on the statue sculpted by Peter Scheemakers from a design by William Kent for Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey (unveiled in 1741).
		1741 by Peter Scheemakers (1691-1781) from a design by William Kent (1684-1748) This statue is one of the most widely reproduced lik...
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	Paintings & Sculpture
		The story of British art is by no means confined to British artists; several major figures from Continental Europe and America painted for British patrons or spent periods of their careers in Britain, and these are also represented in the collection.
		Other areas of British art are represented prominently in the collection are: marine painting, especially the works of Samuel Scott and Charles Brooking; the London cityscape, including a remarkable group of views on the Thames by Canaletto, the work of travel artists, with special emphasis on India; and scenes from the plays of Shakespeare.
		The sculpture collection is relatively small, about a hundred works, and the pre-twentieth-century holdings are dominated by portrait busts; the most notable artists are Peter Scheemakers, Louis-Francois Roubiliac, Joseph Nollekens, and Francis Chantrey.
	www.yale.edu /ycba/collection/paint.htm (508 words)

	Swan of Avon
		It was Henry Herbert who commissioned an exact replica of Peter Scheemakers’ statue of Shakespeare, which only two years before had been acquired for Westminster Abbey.
		As visitors enter the Front Hall they are immediately confronted by Peter Scheemakers' statue of Shakespeare, designed by William Kent, complete with the aforementioned inscription from Macbeth.
		The Introduction to the House, handed free to visitors, is pleased to point out that it was carved for the 9th Earl in 1743 because of the connection between the poet's collected works and the 3rd and 4th Earls to whom the first folio was dedicated.
	www.dlroper.shakespearians.com /swan_of_avon.htm (5191 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The main event of the Historic Works and Buildings Group's contribution to the 40th Anniversary celebrations of the Chiltern Society was an audio-visual presentation by Michael Hardy, Vice-Chairman of the Group, entitled A Tour of the Parish Churches of the Buckinghamshire Chilterns at the Chalfont St Peter Community Centre on 7 October 2005.
		After a brief introduction by Barbara Wallis, the Chairman of the Group, the audience of 80 people was treated to a most professionally arranged tour of the many ecclesiastical architectural gems, some modern but most ancient, spread across the Buckinghamshire Chilterns.
		There are monuments to Jacob Wheeler, a shoemaker (1621), Henry Petty (Earl of Shelburne) and members of his family (1754) by Peter Scheemakers, and the Countess of Shelburne (Lady Sophia) (1771).
	www.chilternsociety.org.uk /chilinfo/churches_txt.html (494 words)

	HORTON FOOTE FAX
		The Windsor Church monument for Topham is by Peter Scheemakers
		Windsor Parish Church was the site of a May 25 to June 30, 2002, Golden Jubilee exhibition that included an informational display board on Topham with new information on his short life by Pamela Marson, editor of the Windsor UK local history publication.
		Mead is credited with commissioning the Peter Scheemakers' monument for Topham Foote in St. John the Baptist, the Windsor Parish Church near the Castle.
	www.chotank.com /hortonfa.html (2737 words)

	artnet.de: Resource Library: Delvaux, Laurent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After training in the studio of Pieter-Denis Plumier in Antwerp, he left in 1717 for London, where he formed an association with his compatriot Peter Scheemakers the younger.
		After Plumier’s death in 1721 it is assumed that Delvaux and Scheemakers collaborated with Francis Bird on the marble monument to John Holles, Duke of Newcastle (d 1711), also in Westminster Abbey.
		Among the last collaborative works made by Delvaux with Scheemakers are the marble funerary monuments to Lewis Watson-Wentworth, 1st Earl of Rockingham, and his Wife (c.
	www.artnet.de /library/02/0220/T022073.asp (257 words)

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	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SAR_SCY/SCHEEMAKERS_PETER_16911770_.html (555 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Today Programme Science Report
		The Anson family must know why they paid for Peter Scheemakers to produce the mirror image of Poussin's painting "Shepherds of Arcadia" together with the letters underneath.
		He had a son Thomas Viscount Anson (1773-1818) who married the daughter of Thomas William Coke (1st Earl of Leicester) The daughter's name was Ann Margaret Coke and she was an artist.
		It is recorded that the 1st Earl of Leicester was a patron and collector of Peter Scheemakers work and his daughter, Ann Margaret Coke, painted copies of work by Poussin and Teniers.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/today/reports/science/bletchley_20040512.shtml (1169 words)

	Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863). "Arab Horses Fighting in
		Among the precedents for this kind of wild-animal imagery was the antique group "Lion Attacking a Horse" (Rome, Mus.
		Conserv.), which was said to have been particularly admired by Michelangelo and which was copied in stone by Peter Scheemakers (1740; Rousham Park, Oxon).
		George Stubbs used the wild-animal theme within naturalistic settings in several paintings, for example, in "Horse Attacked by a Lion," (1770; London, Tate), of which Gericault made at least one copy (1820/21; Paris, Louvre).
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