Editing Peter Scheemakers (section)

===Early life===
Peter Scheemakers the Younger was born in [[Antwerp]] and baptised Pieter-Caspar Scheemaekers at the Sint-Jacobskerk or [[St. James' Church, Antwerp]] on 10 January 1691, son of sculptor Peter Scheemaekers aka [[Pieter Scheemaeckers]] and Catharina van der Hulst (d.1712).<ref>Rijksarchief in België, Parochieregisters, Provincie Antwerpen, BE-A0511, Sint-Jacobus, Doopakten 1682–1693, 10 Januari 1691: ''Petrus Gaspar, Petrus Scheemakers, Catharina van der Hulst, [godparents] Gaspar Roosens, Maria van der Hulst''.</ref> His eldest brother Hendrik (Henry) Scheemakers' baptism has not been found, but Peter's other siblings were: Catharina baptised 1 October 1688 (died young), Elisabeth baptised 6 July 1693 (still living when Peter wrote his Will in 1771), Jan-Frans baptised 2 February 1696 (ditto), and another Catharina baptised 20 March 1698 (died before 1771 leaving one daughter), all baptised at the St Jacobskerk in Antwerp.

Peter followed his father as a sculptor, and joined his elder brother [[Henry Scheemakers]] working in [[Copenhagen]], Denmark, for the court sculptor [[Johann Adam Sturmberg]] (1683–1741), for two years 1718–1720.<ref name=ox>[http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T076438pg2 Helena Bussers and Ingrid Roscoe. "Scheemakers."] Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 27 Mar. 2014; See also Alain Jacobs (1999), ''Laurent Delvaux 1696–1778'', Paris, Arthena, 1999, ''passim''.</ref>  It is said that in 1715 Peter walked from Copenhagen to Rome (over 1500&nbsp;km) where he studied both [[neoclassicism|classical]] and [[baroque]] styles of sculpture.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}