He was the first artist to translate Winckelmann's writings into English, though he broke most of their rules.
He was the first artist to translate Winckelmann's writings into English, though he broke most of their rules. His unrealized dream was a series of frescoes echoing Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel but peopled with Shakespearean characters. He featured 47 paintings of his in the Milton Gallery he opened in 1799, but none of his famous works like the pen drawing Perseus Returning the Eye of the Graii or his oil of Lady Macbeth were shown. FTP, name this favorite painter of William Blake, a Swiss-born Englishman best known for his allegorical The Nightmare.
He was the first artist to translate Winckelmann's writings into English, though he broke most of their rules.
Henry {Fuseli} (or Johann Heinrich {Fussli})