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 Gesch., ii. 254; Schnaase, viii. 468; Sighardt, Gesch., 649.

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