WILHELM

CAMPHAUSEN (1818-1885)  , German painter, was born at Dusseldorf, and studied under A . Rethel and F . W. von Schadow . As an historical and battle painter he rapidly became popular, and in 1859 was made professor of painting at the Dusseldorf academy, together with other later distinctions . His " Flight of Tilly " (1841), " Prince Eugene at the Battle of Belgrade " (1843; in the Cologne museum), " Flight of Charles II. after the Battle of Worcester " (Berlin National Gallery), " Cromwell's Cavalry " (Munich Pinakothek), are his principal earlier pictures; and his " Frederick the Great at Potsdam," " Frederick II. and the Bayreuth Dragoons at Hohenfriedburg," and pictures of the Schleswig-Holstein campaign and the war of 1866 (notably " Lines of Diippel after the Battle," at the Berlin National Gallery), made him famous in Germany as a representative of patriotic historical art . He also painted many portraits of German princes and celebrated soldiers and statesmen . He died at Dusseldorf on the 16th of June 1885 .