Peter Scheemakers

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Peter Scheemakers

by Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont
oil on canvas, 1776
24 3/4 in. x 19 1/4 in. (629 mm x 489 mm)
Purchased, 1934
Primary Collection
NPG 2675

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  • Peter Scheemakers (1691-1781), Sculptor. Sitter in 1 portrait, Artist or producer associated with 4 portraits.

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Probably painted in Antwerp, showing the Scheemakers at the age of 85 with the model for his statue of Shakespeare in the background.
More detailed information on this portrait is available in a National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue, John Kerslake's Early Georgian Portraits (1977, out of print).

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  • Place made: Belgium (probably Antwerp, Belgium)

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Current affairs

Tahitian visitor to London Omai returns home with Captain James Cook on his third voyage. During his two-year stay he inspired a play and was painted by Joshua Reynolds.
Member of Parliament David Hartley unsuccessfully introduces a motion to the House of Commons calling for the abolition of the slave trade.

Art and science

Edward Gibbon produces the first volume of his monumental The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Artist John Constable is born.
Scottish economist Adam Smith analyses the nature and causes of prosperity in his magnum opus The Wealth of Nations.

International

American War of Independence: George Washington raises a new American flag on Prospect Hill, Boston. In an anonymous pamphlet entitled Common Sense, English immigrant Thomas Paine is the first to argue that the American colonies should be independent. Declaration of American Independence on 4 July.

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