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Henry Fuseli  (1741 - 1825)

• Was a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer on art.
• He spent much of his life in Britain.
• He was the second of 18 children.
• He studied Michelangelo's works.
• Fuseli painted more than 200 pictures.
• His sketches or designs numbered about 800; they have admirable qualities of invention and design, and are frequently superior to his paintings.
• He produced no landscapes—"Damn Nature! she always puts me out," was his characteristic exclamation—and painted only two portraits.
• He was a thorough master of French, Italian, English and German, and could write in all these languages with equal facility and vigour.
• His pupils included John Constable, Benjamin Haydon, William Etty, Edwin Landseer and William Blake
• After a life of uninterrupted good health  he died at the age of 84.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Head of a Damned Soul from Dante's Inferno, (verso), 1770-78.
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