Anna Füssli (16 September 1749 – 24 February 1772), sister of

Henry Fuseli Henry Fuseli ( ; ; 7 February 1741 – 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his successful works depict supernatural experiences, such as '' The Nightmare''. He pr ...

, was a Swiss painter of flowers and insects. She died very young.

Life and work

Anna Füssli was born in

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on 16 September 1749. Her parents were

Johann Caspar Füssli Johann Caspar Füssli (3 January 1706 – 6 May 1782) was a Swiss portrait painter and art historian. Biography Füssli was born in Zürich to Hans Rudolf Füssli, who was also a painter, and Elisabeth Schärer. He studied painting in Vienna bet ...

and Anna Elisabeth, née Waser. Johann Heinrich, who later became known in England as Henry Fuseli, and Johann Kaspar Füssli were her brothers. Like her elder sister, Elisabeth Füssli (1744–1780), Anna studied with her father and became a painter, specializing in flower and insect paintings. Although her life was short and hardly any of her works are known today, contemporaries described her as an "excellent" artist. She died on 24 February 1772, aged 22."Füssli, Anna"
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References

1749 births 1772 deaths 18th-century Swiss painters Artists from Zurich Swiss women painters Anna {{Switzerland-painter-stub