Schadow, Johannes Gottfried, sculptor, born in Berlin; was trained in Rome under the best masters, returned to Berlin, and became Director of the Academy of Arts; laboured here for 62 years, and produced works which placed him among the first rank of artists; he had two sons, one of whom distinguished himself as a sculptor, and the other as a painter (1764‒1850).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Sceptre * Schaff, Philip