Henry Fuseli by ____

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Henry Fuseliby ____
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Biography

• Henry Fuseli was born in Zürich Switzerland in
  1741
• He was the second of eighteen children to Johann
  Caspar Fuseli
• His brothers and sisters became artists like his
  father, but he was pushed to become a priest.
• He went to study theology at Caroline College in
  Zürich
• He was ordained a Zwinglian clergyman in 1761

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Biography

• He attempted to support himself with his writing,
  but that did not work.
• He translated many of Shakespeare's plays into
  German
• He was eventually persuaded by Joshua Reynolds to
  become a painter.
• He did not follow the norm of painters quiet
  grandeur, that was not his style.
• He painted whatever he wanted and listened to his
  inner self.

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Biography

• He painted mostly scenes from Shakespeare's
  plays.
• He also painted a lot of dreamlike scenes.
• In 1788 he married Sophia Rawlins, she was a
  model for some of his paintings.
• In 1799 he was appointed Professor of painting at
  the Royal Academy and keeper of the Academy in
  1804.
• He died on April 16, 1825

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Influences

• Shakespeare
• Opium
• Joshua Reynolds

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Style

• He had a very loose style, he was not a
  perfectionist and sometimes his paintings would
  seem almost unfinished.
• His characters are always full of life
• and action.
• He attended plays quite
• frequently, so that was a big
• influence on his paintings.
• Their motions seem to be
• exaggerated like they were
• on stage.
• His lighting is also very
• unique, in that it is theater like.

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Style

• He often did loose sketches or used dried paint
  held together with a little bit of oil.
• He did not follow normal styles of painting, but
  did what he wanted.

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• Silence
• Very loose sketch.
• Dramatic shadows like theater lighting.
• There is movement in the picture, you can almost
  see the person crying.

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The Nightmare Loosely painted. Dramatic shadows
like a theater. Dream like scene.
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The Artist Moved by the Grandeur of Antique
Fragments Very loose sketch. You can see the
anguish in the person's features. Dramatic
Shadows.
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Interesting Facts

• He never painted any landscapes.
• He only painted two portraits.
• He could write and speak in Italian, French,
  English and German.