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Jan 16, 1691 Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium Died on 12 Sep 1781 (aged 90)
Flemish sculptor
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About Peter Scheemakers
- Peter Scheemakers or Pieter Scheemaeckers II or the Younger (16 January 1691 – 12 September 1781) 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.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.
