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Also Known As Johann Heinrich Füssli
Born February 7, 1741 • Zürich • Switzerland
Died April 16, 1825 (aged 84) • England

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Fuseli, Henry: The Three Witches Appearing to Macbeth and Banquo
The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli
The Weird Sisters of Macbeth, engraving by Losay from the painting by Henry Fuseli
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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
French artist Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
French artist
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Self-portrait
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French painter
Thomas Eakins, detail of a self-portrait, oil on canvas, 1902; in the National Academy of Design, New York.
Thomas Eakins
American painter
Édouard Manet: Self-Portrait
Édouard Manet
French painter
Amedeo Modigliani.
Amedeo Modigliani
Italian artist
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
Pascin, Jules: Le Lever
Jules Pascin
Bulgarian-born American painter
Egon Schiele
Austrian artist
Paul Klee
Paul Klee
Swiss-German artist
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian painter and writer
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
Félix Vallotton
Swiss-born French graphic artist and painter
Yinka Shonibare
Yinka Shonibare
British artist
David Hockney
David Hockney
British artist
Sir Matthew Smith
English painter
Alphonse Legros
French-British artist
Hodler, self-portrait, oil on panel, 1891; in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva
Ferdinand Hodler
Swiss artist
Amman, Jost: The Miner
Jost Amman
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