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Lot 314

A mid 19th century English Parian model of the William Shakespeare memorial at Westminster Abbey after Peter Scheemakers

15 – 16 February 2022, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A mid 19th century English Parian model of the William Shakespeare memorial at Westminster Abbey after Peter Scheemakers

the playwright leaning on a pile of three books placed on a square pedestal and pointing towards a hanging scripted scroll, 42.5cm high overall

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Peter Scheemakers or Pieter Scheemaeckers II or the Younger (Dutch, 1691-1781) 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.

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