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Fuseli

American  
[fyoo-zuh-lee] / ˈfju 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)

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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

Returning to England after eight years' absence, Fuseli made his first decided mark by The Nightmare, painted three years after his return.

From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by S. R. Koehler

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