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Henry Fuseli - Male nude and seated hermit

Male nude and seated hermit (ca. 1790–1800)

Henry Fuseli (Swiss, 1741-1825)
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Henry Fuseli

Henry Fuseli was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his works depict supernatural experiences, such as The Nightmare. He painted works for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and created his own "Milton Gallery". He held the posts of Professor of Painting and Keeper at the Royal Academy. His style had a considerable influence on many younger British artists, including William Blake.

Fuseli was born in Zürich, Switzerland, the second of 18 children. His father was Johann Caspar Füssli, a painter of portraits and landscapes, and author of Lives of the Helvetic Painters. He intended Henry for the church, and sent him to the Caroline college of Zürich, where he received a classical education. One of his schoolmates there was Johann Kaspar Lavater, with whom he became close friends.

After taking orders in 1761, Fuseli was forced to leave the country as a result of having helped Lavater to expose an unjust magistrate, whose powerful family sought revenge. He travelled through Germany, and then, in 1765, visited England, where he supported himself for some time by miscellaneous writing. Eventually, he became acquainted with Sir Joshua Reynolds, to whom he showed his drawings. Following Reynolds' advice, he decided to devote himself entirely to art. In 1770 he made an art-pilgrimage to Italy, where he remained until 1778, changing his name from Füssli to the more Italian-sounding Fuseli. In Rome he moved in the same circles as the Scottish artist Alexander Runciman and the Swedish sculptor Tobias Sergel.

Early in 1779 he returned to Britain, visiting Zürich on the way. In London, he found a commission awaiting him from Alderman Boydell, who was then setting up his Shakespeare Gallery. Fuseli painted a number of pieces for Boydell, and published an English edition of Lavater's work on physiognomy. He also gave William Cowper some valuable assistance in preparing a translation of Homer. In 1788 Fuseli married Sophia Rawlins (originally one of his models), and he soon after became an associate of the Royal Academy. The early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, whose portrait he had painted, planned a trip with him to Paris, and pursued him determinedly, but communication between the two was stopped by Rawlins. Fuseli later said "I hate clever women. They are only troublesome". In 1790 he became a full academician, presenting Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent as his diploma work. In 1799 Fuseli was appointed professor of painting to the Academy. Four years later he was chosen as Keeper, and resigned his professorship, but resumed it in 1810, continuing to hold both offices until his death. He was succeeded as keeper by Henry Thomson.

In 1799 Fuseli exhibited a series of paintings from subjects furnished by the works of John Milton, with a view to forming a Milton gallery comparable to Boydell's Shakespeare gallery. There were 47 Milton paintings, many of them very large, completed at intervals over nine years. The exhibition proved a commercial failure and closed in 1800. In 1805 he brought out an edition of Matthew Pilkington's Lives of the Painters, which did little for his reputation.

Antonio Canova, when on his visit to England, was much taken with Fuseli's works, and on returning to Rome in 1817 caused him to be elected a member of the first class in the Accademia dI San Luca

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Drei promenierende Damen (1798-1800)

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Portrait of a Young Lady Drawn in Left Profile (ca. 1778–79)

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Macbeth and the Three Witches. Illustration for Shakespeare’s Macbeth, IV,1

Macbeth and the Three Witches. Illustration for Shakespeare’s Macbeth, IV,1 (1773)

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Winter’s Tale, Act 3, Scene 3

Winter’s Tale, Act 3, Scene 3 (1803)

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Danaë and Perseus on Seriphos (ca. 1785–90)

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The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches

The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches (1796)

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The Nightmare (1781)

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Kühleborn Brings Undine To The Fishermen (1821)

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Hephaestus, Bia and Crato Securing Prometheus on Mount Caucasus

Hephaestus, Bia and Crato Securing Prometheus on Mount Caucasus (c 1800 - c 1810)

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Handschuhe (1798)

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The two murderers of the Duke of Clarence

The two murderers of the Duke of Clarence

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The Peasant’s Dream, Paradise Lost, Book 1, 781-8

The Peasant’s Dream, Paradise Lost, Book 1, 781-8 (1793 to 1800)

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