his masterworks, was commissioned in 1842. Now in the Städel Museum, this large and important picture, while carefully considered and rendered, lacks the power of some of his other works. Schadow's fame rests less on his own artistic creations than on the school he formed. In Düsseldorf a reaction set in against the spiritual and sacerdotal style he had established and, in 1859, the party of naturalism, after a severe struggle, drove Director Schadow from his chair. He died at Düsseldorf in 1862, and a monument was erected in the square which bears his name at a jubilee held to commemorate his directorate. The Düsseldorf School that Schadow directed became internationally renowned, attracting such American painters as George Caleb Bingham, Eastman Johnson, Worthington Whittredge, Richard Caton Woodville, William Stanley Haseltine, James M. Hart, and William Morris Hunt and producing the German emigre Emmanuel Leutze. Notes References Further reading Hübner, Schadow und seine Schule (Bonn, 1869) External links German masters of the nineteenth century: paintings and drawings from the Federal Republic of Germany, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow (no. 74-75) 1789 births 1862 deaths Artists from Berlin Converts to Roman Catholicism from Lutheranism German Roman Catholics People from the Margraviate of Brandenburg German romantic painters Nazarene painters Academic staff of Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) Düsseldorf school of painting