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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.


Fuseli British  
/ ˈfjuːzəlɪ /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The resulting landscapes featured such realistic weather that one critic, the Swiss painter Henry Fuseli, said that Constable’s work “makes me call for my great-coat and umbrella.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 23, 2015

Fuseli did not mean this as a compliment.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 23, 2015

Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Nightmare, by John Henry Fuseli, 1781: a perfect distillation of the sleep-paralysis experience.

From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2015

Eclectic is a polite description: all the visual world was here, from Les très riches heures to Memling, Gustave Doré, Fuseli and, for Isabelle's plasticated boudoir, Polly Pocket.

From The Guardian • Dec. 9, 2012

Fuseli not only took an interest in his own criticisms in this Review, but frequently defended those of others.

From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by Knowles, John

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