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…