Pierre Scheemackers

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Pierre Scheemackers (c.1728 - 1765) was a sculptor in mid-18th century Paris.

A member of the Scheemaeckers family of sculptors from Antwerp and of Flemish descent through both his parents, Pierre Scheemackers was born in London but grew up and worked as a sculptor in Paris where he was admitted to the Académie de Saint-Luc in 1755, and was later appointed teaching Professor there.

Pierre was the elder son of sculptor Henry Scheemakers (c.1686-1748) of London and Paris, nephew of sculptor Peter Scheemakers The Younger (1691-1781) of London, and grandson of sculptor Pieter Scheemaeckers of Antwerp. Pierre's younger brother Thomas-Henry became known as sculptor Thomas Scheemakers (c.1740-1808) of London.

Life

Pierre's father was born Hendrik (Henry) Scheemaekers in Flanders to sculptor Pieter Scheemaeckers and Catharina van der Hulst of Antwerp. Hendrik settled in Westminster by 1726, when "Henry Scheemakers, Statuary", is recorded as taking as apprentice John van Nost. [1] The following year 1727, Henry Scheemakers married Catherine Hennekin, daughter of Flemish-born Michiel (Michael) Hennekin, who had been apprenticed to the great sculptor Jan Claudius de Cock in 1697; Catherine’s brother Simon was a London carver and gilder, as was his son George Michael Hennekin. [2] [3]

Pierre or Peter Scheemakers was born around 1728 in London, where his father was based in Old Palace Yard next to the Palace of Westminster and in partnership with the sculptor Henry Cheere. [4] His brother Michael (named after their grandfather Michael Hennekin) and sister Catherine both died young and were buried at St Margaret's Westminster in 1731 and September 1734 respectively, before the family moved to Paris. Pierre and his surviving siblings were named as their father's heirs after Henry died in Paris in July 1748, as Pierre, Thomas-Henry, Marie-Louise, and Geneviève-Catherine. [5]

Which Paris sculptor taught Pierre is not known, but several were already connected to the family at the time of his father's death in 1748. [6] These included the children's deputy guardian (subrogé tuteur), sculptor Jean-Baptiste or Jean-Jacques Poullet; Pierre Danse and Denis Robinot, both sculptors on rue Meslé (now Meslay) where the Scheemackers were living; and Denis Coulonjon, living at the Cour du Grand Maitre de l'Arsenal. The most prestigious of his father's former colleagues was the sculptor Paul-Ambroise Slodtz (1702-1758), sculpteur ordinaire du Roi on the rue du Vieux Louvre, member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, and son of Antwerp-born Sébastien Slodtz (1655-1726), former Court sculptor and Rector of the Académie de Saint-Luc.

On 15 October 1755, Pierre Scheemackers (the French spelling of the family name) was admitted to the Académie de Saint-Luc. [7] He exhibited several items at the Academy's Salon the following year 1756, also at the Salons of 1762 and 1764. His exhibits were described as : [8]

At the Salon of 1756:

At the Salon of 1762:

At the Salon of 1764:

These translate as:

1756:

1762:

1764:

In January 1764 Pierre Scheemackers was appointed full Professeur at the Académie de Saint-Luc, but died the following year, on 19 October 1765, at his address on the Boulevard du Pont aux Choux in the parish of Saint-Nicolas, Paris. [9]

Pierre Scheemackers had married Anne-Julie Revel in Paris in August 1751. [10] Their only surviving child was Marie-Julie Scheemackers, [11] who had three children : Marie-Françoise-Julie Dubourg, later wife of Charles-Louis-Vincent Thibault; Victor-Honoré-Louis Dubourg; and Marie-Antoinette Dubourg, later wife of Jean-Joseph-Pillioud. The three Dubourgs were left legacies by Pierre's brother, their great-uncle sculptor Thomas Scheemakers of London, who had died childless in 1808. Thanks to sculptor Joseph Nollekens as second executor to Thomas' Will, in May 1815 the Dubourgs received their legacies of £433.6s.8d each in Bank of England funds, due to them since 1810 after the death of Thomas' widow but delayed by the Napoleonic Wars. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ 29 September 1726: 'Hen.Scheemakers, St Margt West Statuary / John son of John Nost of St Geo: Hanov. Square / 7 years / £40, Apprenticeships Books Series IR1, The National Archives.
  2. ↑ Society of Genealogists, "Henry Schemakers and Catherine Hennekin", 1727 at the Royal Catholic Chapel in St James's Palace
  3. ↑ National Portrait Gallery, British artists’ suppliers 1650-1950: Simon Hennekin, and George Hennekin.
  4. ↑ City of Westminster Archives, St Margaret's Westminster Rate Books for 1727 and 1728, as Mr Schimaker and Schimacker.
  5. ↑ Archives de Paris, Inventaires après décès AN Y5316, Henri Schemakers le 24 septembre 1748, p.155.
  6. ↑ Henri Scheckmackers, Sculpteur [sic] Jules Guiffrey, Scellés et inventaires d'artistes français du XVIIème et du XVIIIème siècle Deuxième Partie 1741-1771, Paris, 1885.
  7. ↑ Histoire de l'Académie de Saint-Luc, Archives de l'Art Français, Documents Inédits Tome IX, Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, Paris, 1915, p.452.
  8. ↑ Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école française sous le règne de Louis XIV by Stanislas Lami, Paris, 1910, p.328.
  9. ↑ Stanislas Lami, op.cit.
  10. ↑ Archives Notariales de Paris, Contrats de Mariage: Pierre Scheemakers et Anne-Julie Revel, 1 août 1751, Cote/Source RE/XXXVIII/6.
  11. ↑ Archives nationales à Paris, Inventaires après décès 1749-1781, ref. AN Y5296, 8/11/1765, Pierre Scheemackers.
  12. ↑ Bank of England Will Extracts, Register 575, entry no. 6220 of 16 December 1808, "Thomas Scheemaeckers of Vine Street St James's, Statuary, deceased".
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