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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, 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〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Poets' Corner: William Shakespeare )〕 as well as that to John Dryden in the same church.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Dryden )〕 ==Biography== He learned his art from his father, the Antwerp sculptor Pieter Scheemaeckers. He visited Denmark where he studied for four years with the court sculptor Johann Adam Sturmberg (1683–1741).〔(Helena Bussers and Ingrid Roscoe. "Scheemakers." ) Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 27 Mar. 2014〕 He walked to Rome where he and Delvaux studied both classical and baroque styles of sculpture before settling in London in 1716. He and Delvaux worked there with another Flemish sculptor Pieter-Denis Plumier on a funeral monument to John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, which they delivered in 1722 after the death of Plumier.〔 Scheemakers and Delvaux entered into a formal partnership and set up a workshop in Millbank, Westminster, in 1723. Their workshop produced many sober classical monuments and garden statuary after the Antique. The partners sold their stock in the partnership and travelled to Rome in 1728. Scheemakers stayed here for two years to study both antique and recent masterpieces. Upon his return to England in 1730 Scheemakers restarted the Milbank workshop on his own.〔 His 'ideal' classical sculptures became very popular with the landowning class and the city merchants. He moved his workshop a few times: first to Old Palace Yard in 1736 and then to Vine Street in 1740 where he was active until his retirement in 1771. He returned to Antwerp were he died at the old age of 90.〔 He worked for a time with Francis Bird,〔 and was the teacher of Henry Cheere and Charles Cope Trubshaw, amongst others.〔(Biographical details ) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History 〕 Joseph Nollekens joined his studio in 1747 and served his apprenticeship here, before leaving for Rome in 1762.〔Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors〕 Scheemakers' brother, Henry Scheemakers, and his son, Thomas Scheemakers, were both also sculptors. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Scheemakers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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