Pierre-Denis Plumier

Plumier was born in Antwerp in 1688,[1] the son of Franciscus Puymier and Anna Schobbens.

In 1713 he returned to Brussels, where his first commission was a portrait bust of Goswin de Wynants.

In the same year he made two marble works for the Marquis de Mérode-Westerlo for the castle of Enghien in the province of Hainaut: Enlèvement de Proserpine and Enlèvement des Sabines.

In 1721 Plumier, followed by Delvaux, went to London where he died a short time later, at the age of 33.

He acquired a commission for a funerary monument in Westminster Abbey for John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham[4] on which he collaborated with his pupil Delvaux and Peter Scheemakers.