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Schadow, who was born and died in Berlin, is considered one of the major figures of the 19th-century German school. After several years in Rome in the 1780's, he returned to Berlin, and there, reworking a model by his teacher, Tassaert, he erected the impressive tomb of Count von der Mark in the Dorotheenstädtische Kirche. The Count, who died at the age of nine, was the illegitimate son of King Frederick-William II of Prussia. The child is shown asleep under a niche harbouring the Three Fates. The work shows the sobriety and harmony of Schadow's Neoclassicism.
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