Henry Fuseli
(1741-1825), PainterSitter in 11 portraits
Artist associated with 3 portraits
Swiss clergyman Fuseli came to London in 1764, working as a translator and book illustrator. Encouraged by Reynolds to take up painting, he studied in Rome and upon his return in 1779, began exhibiting works of great psychological complexity, power and imagination, the most menacing being The Nightmare. He became professor of Painting (1799-1805), and then Keeper (1804-25) at the Royal Academy, teaching a generation of artists, including Constable, Haydon and Lawrence. His inclination towards the fantastic, depicted in his heroic, literary and historic themed works was given scope in his paintings for Bouydell's Shakespeare Gallery and his own Milton Gallery.
by Henry Fuseli
pencil, 1778-1779
NPG 3027
by Henry Fuseli
black chalk, circa 1779
NPG 4538
by Charles Turner, after Henry Fuseli
mezzotint, published 1836
NPG D3952
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