Editing Peter Scheemakers (section)

===London, 1730–1771===
Upon his return Scheemakers restarted the Millbank workshop in St Martin's Lane.<ref name="ox" /> His 'ideal' classical sculptures became very popular with the landowning class and the city merchants. He moved his workshop twice more: first to [[Old Palace Yard]] in St Margaret's Westminster in 1736 and then in 1740 to [[Vine Street, London|Vine Street]] in St James's where he stayed until he retired in 1771.<ref>City of Westminster Archives, ''Westminster Rate Books'': Peter Scheemakers in Old Palace Yard, St Margaret's Westminster 1737 and 1738.  Peter Scheemakers in Vine Street (west), St James's Westminster, yearly 1742–1771.</ref>

Scheemakers worked for a time with [[Francis Bird]],<ref name="eb1911"/> and his brother Henry Scheemakers was in partnership with [[Henry Cheere]] for a few years.  Peter taught [[Charles Cope Trubshaw]]<ref name=rkd>[https://rkd.nl/em/explore/artists/70214 Biographical details] at the [[Netherlands Institute for Art History]]</ref> and [[Thomas Banks (sculptor)|Thomas Banks]].  In 1750 he took as apprentice sculptor [[Joseph Nollekens]] (1737–1823), son of fellow Antwerp-born artist [[Josef Frans Nollekens]] (1702–1748), who stayed on as journeyman before leaving for Rome around 1762.<ref name="Roscoe">{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660–1851 |title=Scheemakers, Peter |url=http://liberty.henry-moore.org/henrymoore/sculptor/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=2370&from_list=true&x=1 |editor1-first=Ingrid |editor1-last=Roscoe |editor2-first=Emma |editor2-last=Hardy |editor3-first=M. G. |editor3-last=Sullivan |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2009 |isbn=9780300149654}}</ref>  Nollekens must have remained close to Peter's Vine Street successor, his nephew [[Thomas Scheemakers]], as Thomas appointed Nollekens as one of his executors.

Peter Scheemakers had married Barbara La Fosse but they had no children.  His brother, sculptor [[Henry Scheemakers]] (c.1686–1748), had moved to Paris in the mid-1730s and both Henry's sons had also become sculptors.  The elder, Peter, known as [[Pierre Scheemackers]] (c.1728–1765), remained in Paris where he became a professor at the [[Académie de Saint-Luc]], but died shortly afterwards in 1765.  Henry's younger son Thomas-Henry known as [[Thomas Scheemakers]] (c.1740–1808) left Paris to join his uncle Peter in London, leasing the workshop in Vine Street after Peter retired in 1771, and referred to at his death in 1808 as "Thomas Scheemakers of Vine Street, Statuary".