The new palace of the bishops of Warmia in Frombork, designed by Friedrich August Stüler, a member of the Supreme Building Deputation in Berlin, was opened in 1850. In its central part was erected a chapel. It was dominated by an altar dedicated to St Adalbert, the patron saint of the diocese of Warmia. The altar painting was commissioned to the Düsseldorf school painter, a representative of Realism and Historicism, Heinrich Mücke (1806-1891). Ignatz von Olfers, director general of the royal museums in Berlin, also had an influence on its iconography and composition. With the foundation of this painting, Bishop Joseph Ambrose Geritz demonstrated not only his aesthetic taste or tradition of artistic patronage going back to his famous predecessors, but also his attachment to the patron saint of the diocese, who became the forerunner of Christianity in Prussia.