Henry Fuseli
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Henry Fuseli was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art who spent much of his career in Britain.
Portrait of Henry Fuseli by James Northcote, 1778
Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent was Fuseli's diploma work for the Royal Academy, accepted 1790.
Head of Christ — etching and engraving by John Corner after a drawing by Henry Fuseli (1791), based on a work by Andrea del Verrocchio
The Nightmare (1781), Detroit Institute of Arts
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights. Until the late twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconvention
Henry Fuseli
…In 1788, Fuseli married Sophia Rawlins (originally one of his models), and he soon after became an associate of the Royal Academy. The early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, whose portrait he had painted, planned a trip with him to Paris, and pursued him determinedly, but communication between the two was stopped by Rawlins…
c. 1797 portrait
Wollstonecraft in 1790–1791, by John Opie
Frontispiece to the 1791 edition of Original Stories from Real Life engraved by William Blake
The insurrection of 10 August 1792