Henry Cheere was apprenticed to a member of the Hartshorne family, probably Robert I, in December 1718.
By 1726 he had acquired two premises in St Margaret’s Lane, (later St Margaret.s Street) which ran between Old Palace Yard and New Palace Yard, Westminster, one of them a ‘shop’.
The location was convenient for the Wharfs along the Thames for the transport of stone and marble and the finished works by river and also for commissions destined for Westminster Abbey.
Within a year he was collaborating on monuments with the Flemish sculptor, Henry Scheemakers, brother of Peter who might be credited with introduceing him to Continental modelling and carving techniques.
Their most ambitious work, signed
conspicuously by both sculptors, is the memorial to the Duke of Ancaster, at Edenham, Lincolnshire which
has an elegant life-sized effigy of a Roman general with cropped hair, set in a
grand architectural frame. The partnership lasted 7 years, ceasing when Scheemakers
left England in 1733.
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The Drawing Annotated 'Monument to Lord Carpenter'.
Lord Carpenter died in 1749.
The monument is at Owlesbury near Winchester.
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"In a Vault in this Church are deposited the
Remains of Sr FRANCIS MOLYNEUX Bart of this
Place, & of Dame DIANA his Wife the Daughter of
JOHN HOWE Esqr. of Langar in this County : She had
by Him 7 sons & 3 daughters, & departed this Life
ye 8th day of January in the year of our Lord 1718,
in the 60th year of
her Age; Sr FRANCIS died the 12th
day of March 1741, Aged 86 years.
Happy in the Conjugal not unhappy in the Parental
State, They ended their Days in Peace, & in full
Assurance of a Blessed Resurrection.
Sr CHARLES MOLYNEUX Bart fifth Son
& Heir put up this Monument to the
Memory of the Best of Parents".
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Of Tangential interest Sir John Molyneux monument at Teversall
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