Fuseli

American  

[fyoo-zuh-lee] / ˈfyu zə li /

noun

1. (John) Henry Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741–1825, English painter, illustrator, and essayist; born in Switzerland.

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Fuseli British  

/ ˈfjuːzəlɪ /

noun

1. Henry . original name Johann Heinrich Füssli . 1741–1825, British painter, born in Switzerland. His paintings include Nightmare (1782)

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Example Sentences

A short section in London, when the young writer decides to live by her pen and starts attending long nightly dinners at her publisher’s house with leading intellectuals such as Blake and painter Henry Fuseli, is also exciting to read.

From Washington Post

Physiognomy was popularized during Ducreux’s lifetime by Johann Kaspar Lavater, who wrote a tract illustrated in the English edition with drawings by William Blake and Johann Heinrich Fuseli of various facial “types” set against neutral backgrounds.

From Washington Post

This visitation is unmistakably reminiscent of Fuseli’s The Nightmare.

From The Guardian

The only way she could break the spell was to flee to revolutionary France, where she tried to forget Fuseli amid the swoosh of the guillotine.

From The Guardian

One striking passage in Frankenstein seems to have come straight from Fuseli’s brush.

From The Guardian