Fuseli
Americannoun
noun
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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
On first coming to England Fuseli turned his attention to literature, but was advised by Sir Joshua Reynolds, who had seen his sketches, to cultivate art.
From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by Koehler, S. R.
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