Henry Fuseli Art Prints
Henry Fuseli Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825
5 museum-quality prints of works by Henry Fuseli, each made to order on archival paper and shipped to your wall.
Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) was born Johann Heinrich Füssli in Zurich, trained for the ministry, and was ordained in 1761 before abandoning the church for art. Encouraged by Joshua Reynolds, he spent 1770 to 1778 in Rome, where the example of Michelangelo confirmed his taste for heroic exaggeration; early works such as The Cave of Despair, drawn from Spenser, and his heads of the damned from Dante’s Inferno already show the literary and infernal bent of his imagination. Settled in London from 1779, he became famous with The Nightmare (1782).
Fuseli painted for Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery and mounted his own Milton Gallery of 47 canvases in 1799. Subjects of extremity drew him throughout — Dante’s Ugolino and His Sons Starving to Death in the Tower (1806), Hercules among the man-eating mares of Diomedes. He served the Royal Academy as Professor of Painting and Keeper, and his students and admirers included William Blake.
Ugolino and His Sons Starving to Death in the Tower
Henry Fuseli Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825
The Cave of Despair
Henry Fuseli Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825
Hercules Killing the Mares of Diomedes
Henry Fuseli Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825
Sketch for 'Dido on the Funeral Pyre' (recto); Erotic Sketch of Man and Woman (verso)
Henry Fuseli Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825
Two Heads of Damned Souls from Dante's "Inferno" (recto and verso)
Henry Fuseli (Swiss, active in England, 1741–1825)