Gesch., ii. 254; Schnaase, viii. 468; Sighardt, Gesch., 649.
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FUSELI (Fuessli), HENRY (Heinrich),
born in Zürich,
Feb. 7,
1741, died in
London, April
16, 1825. History
painter
and writer on
art, son of Johann
Caspar
Fuessli (1707-81),
portrait
and landscape
painter of Zürich; took holy orders after
graduating from Zürich University (1761),
left on account of some theological dispute
in 1763, and after wandering through Germany,
where he supported himself by making
translations, went to England in 1765,
and in 1767 adopted painting as his profession,
by the advice of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Three years later he went to Italy, and resided
there from 1770 to 1779, studying
Michelangelo especially, and forming a fantastic
style which also betrays the influence
of Goltzius and Spranger. After his return
to London he attracted attention by a picture
called The Nightmare (1782). From
the year 1774 to 1825 he exhibited sixty-*nine
pictures and drawings at the Royal
Academy. In 1788 he was elected an A.R.A.
and in 1790 R.A.; was made professor in
1799, and keeper in 1805. A fantastic and
prolific designer rather than a painter, he
had neither the judgment to control, nor
the technical knowledge to adequately represent,
the fancies of his powerful but ill-*regulated
imagination. His literary abilities
were of no mean order, and the lectures
which he delivered at the Royal Academy
give evidence of thought, study, and critical
acumen, and are remarkable as specimens
of English writing by a foreigner. Works:
Ugolino and his Sons; Celadon and Amelia;
Romeo and Juliet; Lady Macbeth; Francesca
and Paolo; An Incantation; Hercules
and Theseus.—Redgrave; Sandby, i. 205;
Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Allgem. d. Biogr.,
viii. 260; Art Journal (1861), 325; Portfolio
(1873), 50; Meyer, Conv. Lex., vii.
204; Wornum, Epochs, 526; J. Knowles,
Life and Lectures of Fuseli.
FÜTERER, ULRICH, flourished at Land-*shut
about 1480. German school; history
painter and poet. He painted, conjointly
with Gabriel Maechselkirchner, from 1467
for Kloster Tegernsee, and Duke Albrecht
IV. of Bavaria. Work: Crucifixion, Schleissheim
Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., viii. 271;
Schnaase, viii. 464.
FUX, JOSEF, born at Steinhof, Nether
Austria, in 1842. Genre and portrait painter,
pupil of Ruben; talented colourist. Works:
Scene in a Deer Park; On a Perilous Road;
The Roman Dove-Seller; Children's portraits;
Lute-Player; Cardinal Praying; Savoyard
with Monkeys.—Müller, 189; N.
illustr. Zeitg. (1883), i. 167.
FYOLL, KONRAD, flourished in Frankfort
in 1466-98. German school; son
and probably pupil of Sebald Fyoll, whose
name appears in Frankfort documents in
1439-62 as having executed wall-paintings.
The pictures in the Städel Gallery
under the name of Konrad are not authenticated.—Schnaase,
viii. 377; W. & W., ii.
98.
FYT, JAN, born at Antwerp, baptized
March 15, 1611, died there, Sept. 11, 1661.
Flemish school; animal and still-life painter,
pupil of Jan van den Berch and of Frans
Snyders, next to whom he was the greatest
animal painter of the Flemish school; master
of the guild in 1629, visited France
(1633-34 in Paris) and Italy, and often
worked conjointly with Jordaens and Van
Dyck. Works: Dead Birds, National Gallery,
London; Dogs with Dead Game,
Hawk striking a Duck, Grosvenor Gallery,
ib.; Poultry Yard, Cock Fight, Fancy Birds
(1661), nine others, Madrid Museum; Dead
Game (3), Dog devouring Game (1651),
Louvre, Paris; Hare pursued by Dogs,
Boar Hunts (2), Nantes Museum; Cart
