Editing Peter Scheemakers (section)

===London, 1720–1730===
[[File:Shakespeare memorial, Poets' Corner.jpg|thumb|The Shakespeare memorial in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey]]
In about 1720 Scheemakers settled in London where he befriended fellow Flemish sculptor, Gent-born [[Laurent Delvaux]] (1696–1778), who had been in London since 1717 on the recommendation of his former Master, Antwerp-born [[Pierre-Denis Plumier]].<ref name="eb1911">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Scheemakers, Peter |volume=24}}</ref>  At the time, Pierre-Denis Plumier was still in Brussels, but he came to London in early 1721 with his family, intending to settle permanently.  Plumier had started on a funerary monument to [[John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby|John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham]], when he died only a few months after his arrival.<ref>Alain Jacobs, "Pierre-Denis Plumier (Anvers 1688-Londres 1721)", ''Revue Belge d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art'', Vol.68, 1999</ref> The monument was completed by Peter Scheemakers and Laurent Delvaux in partnership, and installed in [[Westminster Abbey]] in 1722.<ref name=ox/>  By 1726, his brother Henry Scheemakers had also settled in London, in Old Palace Yard in St Margaret's Westminster, staying here until he moved to Paris in the mid-1730s.

Scheemakers and Delvaux then entered into a formal partnership and set up a workshop in [[Millbank]], south of [[Westminster]] in London, in 1723. Their workshop produced many sober classical monuments and garden statuary in the Antique style. However, in order to finance their long-planned trips to study both antique and recent masterpieces in Rome, the two partners sold their stock in April 1728, including 30 items Delvaux had inherited from Plumier on marrying his widow in 1726, and the two sculptors travelled to Rome in 1728.  Delvaux stayed in Rome until 1733 when he was appointed Court Sculptor in Brussels, but Scheemakers stayed only two years before returning to England in 1730.