Henry Fuseli (FEW-zə-lee, few-ZEL-ee; German: Johann Heinrich Füssli [ˈfyːsli]; 7 February 1741 – 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain.Many of his works, such as The Nightmare, deal with supernatural subject-matter.He painted works for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, and created his own "Milton Gallery". Henry Fuseli, who lived from 1741 to 1825, was a British Romantic painter born in Switzerland. Henry Fuseli (7 February 1741 – 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, who worked and spent most of his life in Britain. Many of his works, such as The Nightmare, deal with supernatural subject-matter. Fuseli was born. Shocked, titillated, and frightened. Henry Fuseli is best known as a Artist. The Nightmare is a 1781 oil painting by Anglo-Swiss artist Henry Fuseli.It shows a woman in deep sleep with her arms thrown below her, and with a demonic and apelike incubus crouched on her chest.. In 1761 he was ordained a Zwinglian minister after studying with the influential literary critics J.J. Breitinger and J.J. Bodmer. Henry Fuseli was born on February 7, 1741 in Zürich, Switzerland.. Henry Fuseli is one of the successful Artist. The painting's dreamlike and haunting erotic evocation of infatuation and obsession was a … John Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Fussli) was born into a family of distinguished Zurich intellectuals and artists. His father was the portrait painter Johan Caspar Fussli (1706-82). Fuseli was born in Zürich, Switzerland, the second of 18 children.His father was Johann Caspar Füssli, a painter of portraits and landscapes, and author of Lives of the Helvetic Painters.He intended Henry for the church, and sent him to the Caroline college of Zurich, where he … Henry has ranked on the list of those famous people who were born on February 7, 1741.Henry Fuseli is one of the Richest Artist who was born in British.Henry Fuseli also has a position among the list of Most popular Artist. Biography. Working during the height of the Enlightenment, the so-called “Age of Reason,” the Swiss-English painter Henry Fuseli (born Johann Heinrich Füssli) instead chose to depict darker, irrational forces in his famous painting The Nightmare. Henry Fuseli primary name: Fuseli, Henry other name: Fuseli, Johann Heinrich other name: Füssli, Johann Heinrich Details individual; painter/draughtsman; author/poet; collector; British; Swiss; Male. Henry Fuseli's biography and life story. The Swiss painter Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) depicted the marvelous, the megalomaniac, supernatural horror, the irrational, the erotic, and the macabre, expressing violently romantic attitudes in a severe neoclassic style. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, edited by John Knowles (3 vols., 1831), is valuable. By far the best introduction in English is Eudo C. Mason, The Mind of Henry Fuseli: Selections from His Writings (1951), a brilliantly annotated selection of Fuseli's major writings with an introductory study by Mason. Life dates 1741-1825. Henry Fuseli RA (German: Johann Heinrich Füssli; 7 February 1741 – 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Address 13 Berners Street (from c.1803) Biography Painter, draughtsman, writer and collector of Old Master prints; b.