Henry Fuseli
(1741-1825), PainterRegency Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter 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 James Northcote
oil on canvas, feigned incomplete oval, 1778
NPG 5469
by John Opie
oil on canvas, feigned oval, exhibited 1794
NPG 744
by Thomas Cooley
pencil, 1810
NPG 4913a
by J.H. Lips
stipple and line engraving, published 1779
NPG D2643
by William Daniell, after George Dance
soft-ground etching, (2 June 1793)
NPG D38446
by William Daniell, after George Dance
soft-ground etching, (2 June 1793)
NPG D14056
by Charles (Cantelowe, Cantlo) Bestland, after Henry Singleton
stipple engraving, published 1802 (1795)
NPG D10716
by Charles (Cantelowe, Cantlo) Bestland, after Henry Singleton
stipple engraving, published 1802 (1795)
NPG D36021
by W. Brown
soft-ground etching, 1820-1825
NPG D38447
by James Thomson (Thompson), after Edward Hodges Baily
stipple engraving, published 1825
NPG D4934
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