Julius Schrader

Julius Schrader studied at Academy of Arts, Berlin and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Training under Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow is recorded. Nathaniel Sichel is recorded as having studied under Julius Schrader. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Employment is recorded with Academy of Arts, Berlin. Work by Julius Schrader is recorded in the collections of Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Führermuseum, Alte Nationalgalerie and Victoria and Albert Museum.

• Born — 16 June 1815 • Name — Julius Schrader • Birthplace — Berlin, Prussia • Place of death — Berlin, German Empire • Died — 16 February 1900

He studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, then spent five years at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he became a student of Schadow. He spent two more years in Düsseldorf, and later traveled in Italy (1845–47), England, The Netherlands, and Belgium and in the last country fell under the influence of the colorists Louis Gallait and Édouard De Bièfve. In 1851, he became a professor at the Berlin Academy. • Illustration — Esther vor Ahasver ("Esther before Ahasuerus; 1856)

• Surrender of Calais to Edward III (1847) • Frederick the Great after the Battle of Kolin (1849) • Death of Leonardo da Vinci (1851) • Milton and His Daughters (1855) • Cromwell at the Death-Bed of His Daughter (1859) In fresco he painted First Twelve Christian Monarchs in the Royal Chapel, and Consecration of the Church of Saint Sophia, Constantinople in the New Museum, Berlin. Among his portraits are those of Alexander von Humboldt and the historian Leopold von Ranke.