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

Fuseli did not mean this as a compliment.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 23, 2015

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

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 was astonished at this, and accordingly was not backward in expressing his opinion thereon, both in writing and in conversation, for he was at no time of his life an admirer of West.

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