(23)Henry Fuseli

Henry Fuseli was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He first started to become well known after showing some of his drawings to Sir Joshua Reynolds, and he then followed his advice and became solely dedicated to art. He then traveled through Italy where he then changed his last name from Fussli to Fuseli because of the Italian sound. He favored the supernatural. He painted over 200 pieces in his lifetime, but only displayed a small portion of them.He rarely drew from life or landscapes.--I love Fuseli. I love things that are fantasy like, or other worldly as you can probably tell. I like the idea behind his work, which is something that we may not really think of when we associate his times with what it is he painted. The darker color palette he chose really adds an eery quality to his pieces which I also really like, but his figures seem luminescent, almost glowing. He also portrayed action very well, like a moving painting.