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The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli ...: The life of Henry Fuseli
The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli The life of Henry Fuseli Author:Henry Fuseli Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. The friends are accompanied in their journey by Professor Sulzer. They visit Augsburgh and Leipsic.Arrive at Berlin. Fuseli furnishes some des... more »igns for Bodmer's work. Baron Arnheim. Fuseli visits Earth, in Pome- rania, where he pursues his studies for six months under Professor Spalding. Motives which induce him to visit England, where he arrives in 1703, under the protection of Sir Andrew Mitchell. Lord Scarsdale: Mr. Coutts : Mr. Andrew Millar: Mr. Joseph Johnson. Fuseli receives engagements from the booksellers. His first residence in London: becomes acquainted with Smollet: Falconer : A. Kauffman: Mrs. Lloyd: Mr. Cadell: Garrick. Fuseli accepts, and shortly after relinquishes the charge of travelling tutor to the son of the Earl of Waldegrave. His first interview with Sir Joshua Reynolds His earliest production in oil painting. He visits Liverpool. Takes part in Rousseau's quarrel with Hume and Voltaire, (1767) and exerts his pen in the cause of his countryman. It was fortunate for Fuseli and his friends, that the learned Sulzer, who held the situation of professor of mathematics in the Joachimsthel College, at Berlin, was at Zurich at this time, having obtained leave from the King of Prussia to visit his native country, to endeavour to dissipate his grief for the loss of a beloved wife. Sulzer, who had taken a lively interest in thecause which these young men had advocated, was about to return to Berlin, and offered to take them with him: this opportunity was not to be neglected; and he, Fuseli, Lavater, Jacob and Felix Hess, set out on their journey, early in the year 1763, accompanied by a numerous train of friends and admirers, who attended them as far as Winterthur, at which place they were welcomed with fervour, as the enemies of op...« less