Artist: Henry Fuseli (1741 - 1825)
Nationality: Swiss
Movement: Romanticism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Henry Fuseli was born in Zurich, Switzerland. Although his father was an amateur painter, Fuseli originally joined the seminary and was ordained as a minister in the Swiss Reformed Church in 1761. Under the encouragement of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Fuseli began to paint in 1768, spending eight years in Italy admiring the religious work of Michelangelo. Fuseli moved to London in 1778, exhibiting his most famous painting, The Nightmare at the Royal Academy in 1782. In Fuseli’s work he tended to favor dramatic scenes of terror, imagination, and eroticism.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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John Rogers, Henry Fuseli, 19th - 20th century
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Shakespeare , Henry V, Act II, Scene II., 18th - 19th century
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Shakespeare - Second Part of Henry IV - Act II, Scene IV., 18th - 19th century
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Henry Fuseli - The Nightmare 1781 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art Swiss
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An Old Man Murdered by Three Younger Men
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Francesco Bartolozzi, Queen Katharine"s Dream, after J.H. Fuseli, 1788
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The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches, 1796 Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Füssli) (Swiss, 1741-1825)Oil on canvas;
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Shakespeare - King Lear - Act I Scene I., 18th - 19th century
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Shakespeare - The Tempest - ActI, Scene II., 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Fuseli - Satan and Death with Sin Intervening 1799-1800 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Swiss
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Poems by William Cowper (London: J. Johnson , 1808), vol. 1, 1808
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Poems by William Cowper (London: J. Johnson , 1808), vol. 2, 1808
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Henry Fuseli - Oedipus Cursing His Son, Polynices 1786 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Shakespeare - Mid-summer night"s Dream - Act IV, Scene I., 18th - 19th century
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, The Temple of Nature: or , the Origin of Society (London: J. Johnson, 1803), 1803
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Kate, frontispiece in the book, Poems by William Cowper (London: J. Johnson , 1808), vol. 2, 1807
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Henry Fuseli, Swiss, 1741-1825 Heavenly Ganymede England, 1804 Crayon lithograph Sheet: 32 x 25.5 cm
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Recto: Bereaved Mother Mourning After the Massacre of the Innocents
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, The Prison., plate opposite p. 223 in the book, Poems by William Cowper (London: J. Johnson , 1808), vol. 2, 1807
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, The Poet*s Vision, frontispiece in the book, Poems by William Cowper (London: J. Johnson , 1808), vol. 1, 1807
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Henry Fuseli - Dispute between Hotspur, Glendower, Mortimer and Worcester 1784 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Swiss
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Frontispiece to the book, The Temple of Nature: or , the Origin of Society (London: J. Johnson, 1803), 1803
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Henry Fuseli - Head of a Damned Soul from Dante's "Inferno" 1770-78 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago British
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, The Newspaper in the Country, plate opposite p. 141 in the book, Poems by William Cowper (London: J. Johnson , 1808), vol. 2, 1807
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Illustration for Summer, opposite page 59 in the book The Seasons by James Thomson (London: F. J. du Roverayä, 1802), 1801
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Illustration for Winter, opposite page 208 in the book The Seasons by James Thomson (London: F. J. du Roverayä, 1802), 1801
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, The Negro revenged., plate opposite page 375, in the book, Poems by William Cowper (London: J. Johnson , 1808), vol. 1, 1807
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, A Dressing room., plate opposite page 51, in the book, Poems by William Cowper (London: J. Johnson , 1808), vol. 1, 1807
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Virtue reclaiming Youth, &c., plate opposite page 44, in the book, Poems by William Cowper (London: J. Johnson , 1808), vol. 1, 1807
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, A. Mother and her Family in the Country, plate opposite page 276, in the book, Poems by William Cowper (London: J. Johnson , 1808), vol. 1, 1807
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Reconciliation of King Henry III and Henry of Navarre 1628 oil on panel Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Flemish
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Henry Cousins, Henry Leverage, 19th century
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Henry Wolf, Portrait of the Engraver Henry Wolf, 1905
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Henry William Bunbury, Falstaff reproved by King Henry - Shakespeare - Henry VI, Part 2, Act V, Scene 8., 18th - 19th century
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Henry Wolf, Henry Irving, 19th - 20th century
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Henry Wolf, Portrait of Mrs. Henry, 19th - 20th century
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Henry Wolf, Henry Irving at Home, 19th - 20th century
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Henry Wolf, Henry Mills Alden, 19th - 20th century
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Henry Wolf, Portrait of Henry Irving, 19th - 20th century
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John Henry Robinson, Henry Somerset, First, 18th - 19th century

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