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Fuseli, Henry (Fussli, Johann Heinrich) (1741-1825)

Creator details

Name
Fuseli, Henry (Fussli, Johann Heinrich) (1741-1825)
Nationality
Swiss
Biography
Henry Fuseli (b.1741 d.1825) was a Swiss painter known for his fantastical paintings inspired by classic literature. He created numerous works for John Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery. Fuseli served as Keeper of the Royal Academy for 21 years. His work is dramatic and sensual, displaying psychological complexity and imagination. This is embodied in his best-known work, The Nightmare, which combines Romanticism and Gothic horror.
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Assets (97 in total)

The Nightmare, 1790-91 (oil on canvas)
The Nightmare, 1781 (oil on canvas)
Titania Awakes, Surrounded by Attendant Fairies, clinging rapturously to Bottom, still wearing the Ass's Head, 1793-4
The Artist in Despair over the Magnitude of Antique Fragments (right hand and left foot of the Colossus of Constantine) 1778/80 (red chalk and sepia wash on paper)
Macbeth and the Witches, 1793-94 (oil on canvas)
Achilles Searching for the Shade of Patrocles, 1803 (oil on canvas)
Mad Kate, 1806-07 (oil on canvas)
Teiresias foretells the future to Odysseus (oil on canvas)
Titania's Awakening, c.1785-90 (oil on canvas)
Portrait of a Lady (oil on canvas)
Henry V Discovering the Conspirators, 'Henry V', Act II, Scene 2, , c.1780 (oil on panel)
The Death of Oedipus, 1783-84 (oil on canvas)
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