- ings. On Schadow's departure for Italy
in 1830, he became director of the Academy, and exercised a great influence over the Düsseldorf school. In 1858 he became director of the Carlsruhe Gallery. Member of Berlin Academy, 1832; Knight of Order of Merit; Medal: 1st class, Paris, 1837. Works: Convent Churchyard (1826); Mediæval Castle (1828), National Gallery, Berlin; Mourning Royal Couple (1828); Convent-Yard in Snow (1828), Cologne Museum; Barbarossa at Iconium (1829); Ravine with Ruins (1830); Burg Rheinstein (1832); Mountain Landscape, Great Rocky Landscape, The Robber, Leonore (1832); Convent Church-Yard in the Snow (1833), Landscape in the Eifel (1834), Hussite Sermon (1836), National Gallery, Berlin; Landscape (1836), Confession in the Woods (1837), Raczynski Gallery, ib.; Evening on the Moselle (1837), Darmstadt Museum; Landscape with Ruins of Fire (1835), Millennial Oak (1837), Ezzelino in Prison (1838), Oakwood (1839), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Frederic Barbarossa (1839), Service in Old Chapel (1839), Landscape on the Havel (1841), National Gallery, Berlin; Huss before Council of Constance (1842), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Henry V. before Prüfeningen (1844), Hanover Gallery; Mountain Landscape at Noon, Landscape in Hailstorm, Wood Landscape with Brook (1844); Mountain Landscape at Evening (1845); Wood Landscape with Burning Convent (1846), Dresden Museum; Huntsman on Stand (1846), Ravené Gallery, Berlin; Mountainous Landscape (1847), View in the Eifel, Leipsic Museum; Arquebusiers defending Height (1848), Head of a Knight, Düsseldorf Gallery; Martyrdom of Huss (1850), Defence of a Pass (1851), National Gallery, Berlin; Westphalian Landscape (1852), Ravené Gallery, ib.; Wood Landscape with Figures, Basle Museum; Luther burning the Pope's Bull (1853); Landscape with Soldiers (1856); Seizure of Pope Paschal by Henry V. (1858); Monk at Coffin of Henry IV. (1859), Königsberg Museum; Rhine-Landscape (1859), Christiania Gallery; Crusaders in the Desert (1863), Luther and Eck at Leipsic (1867), View in the Hartz, Landscape with Charcoal Burners, Carlsruhe Gallery; Evening Landscape (1868), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Landscape, Stettin Museum; do., Wiesbaden Gallery; Morning Landscape with Gypsies (1870): Landscape in the Hartz, Milan Gallery; Landscape in the Eifel during Storm (1875), National Gallery, Berlin; Landscape with Accessories from Thirty Years' War (1877), Dresden Museum; Landscape in Franconian Switzerland, Stuttgart Gallery; Lorettsberg, near Freiburg, Cologne Museum. Works in United States: Landscape, T. A. Havemeyer, New York; Monks' Repose, Mrs. W. P. Wilstach, Philadelphia; Mountains of Eifel, J. D. Lankenau, ib.; Moonrise, Fairman Rogers, ib.; Martyrdom of Huss, After a Summer Shower, Landscape with Poachers, Sunrise in Hartz Mountains, Hymn of the Ages, Huss before Council of Constance, J. Longworth Collection, Cincinnati; Ambush, G. Hoadly, ib. His sons Konrad and Heinrich have also made a name for themselves as landscape painters.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xviii. 450; Allgem. Zeitg., June 12, 1880; Förster, v. 351; Frankfurter Zeitg., June 13, 16, 17, 1880; Illustr. Zeitg. (1878), i. 123 (1880), i. 513; Jordan (1885), ii. 135; Karlsruher Zeitg., June 20, 1880; Kunst-Chronik, xv. 601; Wolfgang Müller, Düsseldorf. K., 89; Nord und Süd, xv. 312; Pecht, D. K., iii. 294; Raczynski, iii. 370; Reber, ii. 136; Ueber Land u. Meer (1868), i. 223; Westermann's Monatshefte, xlviii. 729; Wiegmann, 102; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xvi. 33, xvii. 185, 224.
LESTANG-PARADE, LEON DE, born
at Aix in 1812. History and portrait painter.
Medals: 2d class, 1835; 1st class, 1838.
Works: Death of Camoëns (1835), Aix Museum;
Last Moments of the Painter Santerre
(1835), Lyons Museum; Titian and
Aretino at Venice (1838), Arras Museum;
Samson and Delilah (1840); Calling of St.
James (1843), Last Interview of St. Benedict
and his Sister St. Scholastica (1847),
