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    completed by Peter Scheemakers and Laurent Delvaux in partnership, and installed in Westminster Abbey in 1722. By 1726, his brother Henry Scheemakers had also...
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    original by Peter Scheemakers, has formed the centrepiece of Leicester Square Gardens in London since 1874. The marble figure, copied from Scheemakers's 18th-century...
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    Richard Brodrepp in the church dates from 1739 and was designed by Peter Scheemakers. The grounds and formal gardens are Grade II* listed. An Italianate...
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    or glade, a succession of picturesque tableaux. The statues are by Peter Scheemakers. Among the most revealing and thought-provoking of the follies is...
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  • rusticated arch, which frames a relief fashioned by the Flemish sculptor Peter Scheemakers. The relief is a copy of the Poussin painting Et in arcadia ego and...
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    Oxfordshire (by Peter Scheemakers, 1743, according to Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851, rev.ed. 1968, s.v. "Scheemakers, Peter") and Wilton...
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    livres rent for the year. Sons Pierre and Thomas Scheemakers, sculptors Henry Scheemakers' elder son Peter (III) Scheemaekers became known in Paris as sculptor...
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    marble bust collection was formed when 14 busts from the sculptor Peter Scheemakers were acquired by the college. Many of the busts are of great philosophers...
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    inscribed on the Cowley gravestone. Memorial bust on pedestal by Peter Scheemakers was erected in 1731, replacing an earlier memorial. Poet and playwright...
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    drew attention to the mysterious Shugborough inscription. Carved by Peter Scheemakers, theories have abounded, including some which suggest it may indicate...
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