Identifier: livesofbritishsc00chan (find matches)
Title: The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868-1937
Subjects: Sculptors -- Great Britain Artists
Publisher: London : Chapman & Hall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Kent, with his two wives, and daughters,at Fletton, in Bedfordshire. This group, which isexecuted in white marble, was produced in 1740. AtEdenham, Lincolnshire, there may be seen his monumentto the first and second Dukes of Ancaster, on which thosenoblemen are represented seated and habited as Romans.At Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, is his monument to LordChancellor Hardwicke; at Gosfield, Essex, one to thememory of J. Knight, Esq.; and at Staunton Hall, oncethe seat of Lord Ferrers, are busts of the Hon. LaurenceShirley, son of the first Earl Ferrers, and of his wife andfour children ; while the monument to Henry Petty,Earl of Shelburne, at Wycombe, Bucks, and the figureon a sarcophagus to the memory of Montague GerrardDrake, at Amersham, are also by Scheemakers. * In a volume of drawings by Roubiliac, Rysbrack, and Scheemakers,which once belonged to Nollekens, now in the Soane Museum, there isa sketch by Scheemakers of this monument. ■j* This was executed in conjunction with Delvaux.
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MONUMENT TO SHAKESPEAREBy Scheemakers SCHEEMAKERS 109 Besides this not inconsiderable total, the sculptorexecuted a statue of Sir John Barnard, for the RoyalExchange ; of Admiral Pocock, Major Lawrence, andLord Clive, for the India House ; of Edward VI., inbronze, for St. Thomass Hospital, and of Thomas Guy,for Guys Hospital, a figure which still stands in the fore-court of that institution. He also produced a colossalstatue of George II., a bust of Earl Temple, and life-sizestatues of Lycurgus, Socrates, Homer, and Epaminondas,for Stowe Park ; and for the same place he executed,in rivalry with Delvaux, two marble groups, one repre-senting Vertumnus and Pomona, the other, Venus andAdonis. This does not exhaust Scheemakerss achievements, butit is sufficient to indicate the extent and variety of hiswork. His headquarters, in London, were situated inVine Street, Piccadilly, and it was here that youngNollekens came to him, as a pupil, in 1750, working under his friendly master, as Smith p

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