69:. 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.
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Scheemackers had married Anne-Julie Revel in Paris in August 1751. Their only surviving child was Marie-Julie Scheemackers, who had three children : Marie-Françoise-Julie Dubourg, later wife of Charles-Louis-Vincent Thibault; Victor-Honoré-Louis Dubourg; and Marie-Antoinette Dubourg,
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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. The following year 1727, Henry
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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.
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Deux dessins de chaire à precher, l'un représentant le Temple de la Vérité soutenu par les quatre Evangélistes, projet destiné à la chaire de Saint-Roch, l'autre représentant l'Eglise pour la chaire de
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Scheemakers married
Catherine Hennekin, daughter of Flemish-born Michiel (Michael) Hennekin, who had been apprenticed to the great sculptor
397:, Archives de l'Art Français, Documents Inédits Tome IX, Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, Paris, 1915, p.452.
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29 September 1726: 'Hen.Scheemakers, St Margt West
Statuary / John son of John Nost of St Geo: Hanov. Square / 7 years / £40,
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Two pulpit designs, one representing the Temple of Trust supported by the four
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later wife of Jean-Joseph-Pillioud. The three
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454:, Register 575, entry no. 6220 of 16 December 1808, "Thomas Scheemaeckers of Vine Street St James's, Statuary, deceased".
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A fool (or lunatic) calling for silence whilst he scratches his toes on his right foot.
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442:, Inventaires après décès 1749-1781, ref. AN Y5296, 8/11/1765, Pierre Scheemackers.
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Un fou qui fait faire silence, tandis qu'il gratte les doigts de son pied droit
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