Henry Fuseli (German: Johann Heinrich Füssli ) (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 works, such as The Nightmare deal with supernatural subject-matter. He painted works for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery , and created his own "Milton Gallery". He held the posts of Professor of Painting and Keeper at the Royal Academy. His style had a considerable influence on many younger British artists, including William Blake . What Fuseli supposedly said re Wollstonecraft: In 1788 Fuseli married Sophia Rawlins (originally one of his models), and he soon after became an associate of the Royal Academy . [ 1 ] The early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft , whose portrait he had painted, planned a trip with him to Paris, and pursued him determinedly, but after Sophia's intervention the Fuselis' door was closed to her forever. Fuseli later said "I hate clever women. The...