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Fuseli valued a picture by Anna Wasser, which he owned, and praised her correctness of design and her feeling for color. <b>WATERS, SADIE P.</b> 1869-1900. Honorable mention Paris Exposition, 1900. Born in St. Louis, Missouri. This unusually gifted artist made her studies entirely in Paris, under the direction of M. Luc-Olivier Merson.
One day, during varnishing time in the exhibition, an eminent portrait painter was at work on the hand of one of his pictures; he turned to the Keeper, who was near him, and said, "Fuseli, Michael Angelo never painted such a hand." "No, by Pluto," retorted the other, "but you have, many!"
Annibal Caracci was accused of an affectation of muscularity, and an undue parade of anatomical knowledge, even upon quiescent figures: But the artist whom we are now considering has no quiescent figures: even his repose is a state of rigid tension, if not extravagant distortion. He is the Fuseli of novelists.
He was subject to fits of despondency, and during the continuance of such moods he sat with his beloved book on entomology upon his knee touched now and then the breakfast cup with his lips, and seemed resolutely bent on being unhappy. In periods such as these it was difficult to rouse him, and even dangerous. Mrs. Fuseli on such occasions ventured to become his monitress.
"Something!" exclaimed the other; "you always cry write Fuseli write! blastation! what shall I write?" "Write," said Armstrong, who was present, "write on the Voltaire and Rousseau Row there is a subject!" He said nothing, but went home and began to write. His enthusiastic temper spurred him on, so that he composed his essay with uncommon rapidity.
For me at least in the circumstances then surrounding me there arose out of the pure abstractions which the hypochondriac contrived to throw upon his canvass, an intensity of intolerable awe, no shadow of which felt I ever yet in the contemplation of the certainly glowing yet too concrete reveries of Fuseli.
"Do but the tenth part of what you can do." "Hang that up in your bed-head," said the physiognomist, "obey it and fame and fortune will be the result." Fuseli arrived in the capital of the British Empire early one morning, before the people were stirring.
The story told both by Knowles, the biographer of Fuseli, and by Godwin, is that Mary was in love with the artist; and that the necessity of suppressing, even if she could not destroy, her passion hopeless since its object was a married man was the immediate reason of her going to France alone. But they interpret the circumstances very differently.
The magnificent plan of the "Milton Gallery" originated with Fuseli, was countenanced by Johnson the bookseller, and supported by the genius of Cowper, who undertook to prepare an edition of Milton, with translations of his Latin and Italian poems. The pictures were to have been engraved, and introduced as embellishments to the work.
The Professor, "much renowned in Greek," confessed his ignorance, and said, "I don't know him." "How the devil should you know him?" chuckled Fuseli, "I made them this moment." "It is a pleasant thing, and an advantageous," said the painter, on one of these occasions, "to be learned.
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