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Early Life, Family and Training Johann Heinrich Füssli was born on 7 February 1741 in Zürich, Switzerland. He grew up in a large household as the second of 18 children. His father, Johann Caspar Füssli, was a man of both brush and pen, working as a painter of portraits and landscapes while also writing Lives of the Helvetic Painters. This environment provided a steady, if crowded, backdrop to his earliest years. His education followed

a structured path at the Collegium Carolinum in Zürich, where he studied the classics. This formal training in language and history would later color the way he approached his subjects. Life did not move directly toward the canvas for him, however. In 1761, he took orders and spent a period of time serving as a pastor. The path of a clergyman was not his final destination. His early years were marked by a tension between the religiou…