Henry Fuseli
Perhaps his most famous work, The Nightmare, completed in 1781, displays his macabre imagination, featuring an incubus perched on the supine body of a sleeping woman draped over her bed.
Fuseli appears to have influenced Blake’s aesthetic in several ways; for example, Fuseli’s elongated figures, juxtaposition of supernatural and natural imagery, intensely muscular bodies, admiration of John Milton’s dynamism, and dramatic scene composition.
