Peter Scheemakers or Pieter Scheemaeckers II or the Younger (10 January 1691 – 12 September 1781)[1] was a Flemish sculptor who worked for most of his life in London.

[6] By 1726, his brother Henry Scheemakers had also settled in London, in Old Palace Yard in St Margaret's Westminster, staying here until he moved to Paris in the mid-1730s.

Scheemakers and Delvaux then entered into a formal partnership and set up a workshop in Millbank, south of Westminster in London, in 1723.

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.

Peter Scheemakers retired in 1771, aged 80, his wife Barbara having died in 1768,[11] and returned to live with his siblings Elisabeth and Francis in their native town of Antwerp.

[6][12] Peter Scheemakers "native of Antwerp but now of Vine Street in the parish of St James Westminster, Statuary" had signed his Will in London on 19 June 1771, witnessed by William Lister and Sarah Whip.

£50 to his niece Anna-Maria Vandiepenbeeck; the same to Mr James Bucher [sic], haberdasher of Pall Mall, who was also appointed sole executor.

Peter Scheemakers created 16 works – monuments, figures, busts and tombs – for Westminster Abbey alone, of which 15 are still in situ: Further works include memorials to the 1st and 2nd Dukes of Ancaster at Edenham, Lincolnshire; Lord Chancellor Hardwicke at Wimpole, Cambridgeshire; the Duke of Kent, his wives and daughters, at Flitton, Bedfordshire; the Earl of Shelburne, at Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; and the figure on the sarcophagus to Montague Sherrard Drake, at Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

This burial monument, which includes the young man's bust and the Foote family crest, greets visitors in the main High Street entrance, 300 feet (90 m) from the Henry VIII gate to Windsor Castle.