When this artist of Mad Kate became a professor of the Royal Academy instead of Joseph Bonomi in 1790, Sir Joshua Reynolds resigned in protest.
One painting by this artist was reworked to show two people instead of one, in a version by Nicolai Abildgaard. In one of his paintings, a bug-eyed woman with a red-ribboned bonnet sits on a rock, while her black cape is blown by the furious wind. Over an eight-year period, he made 47 paintings based on Paradise Lost for his "Milton Gallery". When this artist of Mad Kate became a professor of the Royal Academy instead of Joseph Bonomi in 1790, Sir Joshua Reynolds resigned in protest. A tiny man with outstretched arms stands in the palm of a Shakespearean character with a donkey's head in his Titania and Bottom. In a painting by him, a horse's head pokes through curtains and an incubus sits on a sleeping woman. For 10 points, name this Swiss-born painter of The Nightmare.
One painting by this artist was reworked to show two people instead of one, in a version by Nicolai Abildgaard.
Henry Fuseli [or Johann Heinrich Fuseli]