Biography
He learned his art from his father and from Delvaux. After visiting Denmark, he walked to Rome where he studied both classical and baroque styles of sculpture before settling in London in 1716. From 1728 to 1735, he again sojourned in Rome and then settled in England, where he remained from 1735 to 1770. He worked for a time with Francis Bird, and was the teacher of Joseph Nollekens, amongst others. Towards the end of his life, he returned to Antwerp where he had been born, and died there. Scheemakers' brother, Henry Scheemakers, and his son, Thomas Scheemakers, were both also sculptors.
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