Henry Scheemakers

Henry Scheemakers (died 1748) was a Flemish-born sculptor operational in England in the early 18th century.

Scheemakers' exact date of birth is not known, and most of what is known about him is from his works.

He was born in Antwerp into a family of sculptors, being christened Hendrik Scheemakers. He learned his art from his father Pieter Scheemaeckers and from Belgian sculptor Laurent Delvaux. His brother Peter Scheemakers and his nephew Thomas Scheemakers were also sculptors. Scheemakers collaborated with the sculptor Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet on a monument to Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (c. 1728; Edenham, Lincolnshire), in which the life-size figure of the Duke clad in Roman armour is flanked by Corinthian columns.

In 1726 he is known to have taken John van Nost the younger as his apprentice.

In 1733 he left England to live in Paris.

However, at the time of his death he was again living in Antwerp.

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