Johann Caspar Füssli


Johann Caspar Füssli was a Swiss portrait painter and writer.

Biography

Füssli was born in Zurich 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 Zurich, where he painted the members of the Government and figures of the Enlightenment era such as Johann Jakob Bodmer and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock.
He married Elisabeth Waser, and they had five children: Hans Rudolf, Johann Kaspar, Johann Heinrich, Anna, and Elisabeth. Füssli died in Zurich in 1782.

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