Johann Caspar Füssli

Training under Hans Rudolf Füßli is recorded. Johann Heinrich Meyer and Johann Heinrich Lips are recorded as having studied under Johann Caspar Füssli. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Zurich. Work by Johann Caspar Füssli is recorded in the collections of Gleimhaus, Hermitage Museum, Zentralbibliothek Zürich and Kunsthaus Zürich.

• Name — Johann Caspar Füssli • Born — 3 January 1706 • Birthplace — Zurich • Died — 6 May 1782 • Place of death — Zurich • Children — Johann Heinrich, Johann Kaspar, Anna, 1 other daughter and 14 others

Füssli was born in Zürich to Hans Rudolf Füssli, who was also a painter, and Elisabeth Schärer. He studied painting in Vienna between 1724 and 1731, and then became a portraitist in the courts of southern Germany. In 1736, he returned to Zürich, where he painted members of the government and figures of the Enlightenment era such as Johann Jakob Bodmer and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. He also wrote and illustrated two dictionaries of Swiss painters and became well known as an art historian. He married Elisabeth Waser, and they had 18 children. Four of them later became known as painters: Johann Heinrich ("Henry Fuseli", 1741–1825), Johann Kaspar (1743–1786), Elisabeth (1744–1780), and Anna (1749–1772). Johann Caspar Füssli died in Zürich in 1782.

• Illustration — Portrait of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1750) • Illustration — Portrait of Ewald Christian von Kleist (1753) • Illustration — Portrait of Hans Jakob Leu (c. 1759)