Many of Henry Fuseli’s images linger with obsessional attention upon his wife’s extravagant hair styles and maquillage. Art work by Henry Fuseli, “Allegory of Vanity” (1811) / Courtesy The ...

Fuseli’s grandfather, father and all four of his siblings were also artists. His older brother, Johann Rudolf, painted, drew ...

A remarkable selection of his highly charged coiffure drawings is now on display in “Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism” at the Courtauld Gallery. The 50 drawings are not ...

Henry Fuseli was “obsessed with sex”, said Mika Ross-Southall in The Daily Telegraph. Wherever he could insert a fetishistic touch into his art, he would: indeed, around a third of the works ...

Photo: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York/Art Resource, NY And this episode’s Work of the Week is The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli—the Swiss-born artist’s ...

Henry Fuseli. Half-length figure of a courtesan with feathered headdress (c. 1800-10). Graphite, pen and brown ink, brush and watercolour. 283 x 200 mm. Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Collection of ...

Fuseli’s erotic works aren’t just simple pornography. They’re anxious things, depictions of dominant women who ignore and control men, awkward drawings of love and desire.

After his return from Rome to London in 1779, Shakespeare’s plays become another major source of motifs in his art, as his contributions to John Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery illustrate.Drama and ...