Chapter VIII

Fuseli undertakes the Illustration of Cowper's Edition of
Milton.--First notion of the "Milton Gallery" hence
suggested.--Letter to Mr. Roscoe from Fuseli and Mr.
Johnson.--Circumstances attending Fuseli's Election as a Royal
Academician.--Sir Joshua Reynolds's temporary secession connected
with that event.--Fuseli's progress in the pictures for the
"Milton Gallery."--Controversy between Fuseli and the Rev. Mr.
Bromley.--Subjects painted for Woodmason's "Illustrations of
Shakspeare."--Subscription towards the completion of the Milton
Gallery.--Letter from Mr. Roscoe.--Fuseli contributes to Seward's
"Anecdotes."--His Visit to Windsor with Opie and
Bonnycastle.--Anecdotes connected with that Visit.--Letter from Mr.
Roscoe.--Mr. Johnson's Imprisonment, and Fuseli's adherence to
him.--Anecdote of Lord Erskine.--Exhibition of the "Milton
Gallery," and List of the Works composing it, with incidental
Comments, &c.--Letter to Fuseli from his brother Rodolph.--Letter
from Fuseli to Mr. Lock 171

CHAPTER IX.

Fuseli's Lectures at the Royal Academy.--Letters respecting them
from Mr. Farington.--Letter from Sir Henry Englefield, on the
subject of the ancient Vases.--Death of Fuseli's friend
Lavater.--Fuseli's Visit to Paris in 1802.--His Letter from thence
to Mr. James Moore.--His acquaintance with the French Painters
David and Gerard.--Results of his Visit.--Letter from Mr.
Roscoe.--Fuseli's Remarks on some of the Paintings in the
Louvre.--Letter from Mr. Smirke.--Fuseli elected Keeper of the
Royal Academy.--Incidental Anecdote.--Letter to Mr. Joseph Johnson
239

CHAPTER X.

The Biographer's Introduction to Fuseli.--New Edition of
Pilkington's Dictionary of Painters, superintended by
Fuseli.--Establishment of the British Institution, and Fuseli's
limited Contributions to the Exhibition there.--Subject from
Dante.--Fuseli's Remarks on Blake's Designs.--His Lectures on
Painting renewed.--Tribute of esteem from the Students of the
Academy.--Letter.--Death of Mr. Johnson, and Fuseli's sympathy on
the occasion.--Fuseli re-elected to the Professorship of Painting
at the Royal Academy 287

CHAPTER XI.

Fuseli's prefatory Address to his resumed Lectures.--His second
Edition of Pilkington.--He suffers from a nervous fever, and visits
Hastings in company with the Biographer.--His Picture of Marcus
Curius, and Letter relative to it.--Letter from Mr.
Roscoe.--Canova's Intercourse with Fuseli.--Anecdotes of Fuseli and
Harlow.--Letters from Fuseli to the Biographer.--Republication of
his Lectures, with additions.--Death of Professor Bonnycastle, and
Anecdote concerning him.--Death of Fuseli's friend and patron Mr.
Coutts.--An agreeable party at Fuseli's house 304

CHAPTER XII.

Decline of Fuseli's Health.--Letter from Mr. James C.
Moore.--Fuseli's Bust by Baily, and Portrait by Sir Thomas
Lawrence.--His last Academical Lectures.--Particulars of his
Illness and Death.--Proceedings relative to his interment, with an
account of the ceremony--Copy of his Will 329

CHAPTER XIII.

Fuseli's personal appearance and habits.--Existing Memorials of him
in Pictures and Busts.--His method of dividing his time.--Anecdotes
exemplifying his irritability.--His attainments in classical and in
modern Languages.--Instances of his Powers of Memory.--His intimate
knowledge of English Poetry and Literature.--His admiration of
Dante.--His Passion for Entomology.--His opinions of some
contemporary Artists.--His conversational powers, and
Anecdotes.--His deficient acquaintance with the pure Physical
Sciences 350

CHAPTER XIV.

Fuseli's inherent shyness of disposition.--His opinion of various
noted individuals, viz. Dr. Johnson, Sterne, Sir Joshua Reynolds,
Gibbon, Horne Tooke, and Thomas Paine.--His cultivation of English
notions and habits.--His attachment to civil and religious
Liberty.--His intimacy with theatrical matters.--His adventure at a
Masquerade.--His powers as a Critic, both in Literature and Art,
with various illustrative examples.--His impressions of
Religion.--One of his Letters on Literature 371

CHAPTER XV.

Character of Fuseli as an Artist.--His early style.--His ardent
pursuit of excellence in design.--His neglect of mechanical means,
particularly as regards Colours.--His professional independence,
unmixed with obstinacy.--His pre-eminent faculty of invention, and
success in the portraiture of the ideal.--His deficiencies as to
correctness, and disinclination to laborious finish.--Causes of his
limited popularity as a Painter.--His felicity in Likenesses.--His
colour and chiar-oscuro.--His quality as a Teacher of the Fine
Arts.--His ardent love of Art.--Arrangements as to the disposal of
his Works, &c.--List of his Subjects exhibited at the Royal Academy
from 1774 to 1825 395

APPENDIX.

On the character of Fuseli as an Artist, by W. Y. Ottley,
Esq.--Verses to Fuseli on his series of Pictures from the Poetical
Works of Milton, by W. Roscoe, Esq.--Ode to Fuseli on seeing
Engravings from his Designs, by H. K. White, Esq.--"A
Vision,"--verses in which Fuseli's principal productions are
briefly noticed 419

THE

LIFE

OF

HENRY FUSELI,

M.A. R.A.