Julius Friedrich Antonio Schrader (16 June 1815 – 16 February 1900) was a German painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

He studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, then spent five years at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he became a student of Schadow.

He spent two more years in Düsseldorf, and later traveled in Italy (1845–47),[1] England, The Netherlands, and Belgium and in the last country fell under the influence of the colorists Louis Gallait and Édouard De Bièfve.

[2] In fresco he painted First Twelve Christian Monarchs in the Royal Chapel, and Consecration of the Church of Saint Sophia, Constantinople in the New Museum, Berlin.

[2] Among his portraits are those of Alexander von Humboldt and the historian Leopold von Ranke.