Johann Caspar Füssli (3 January 1706 – 6 May 1782) 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 (1743–1786), Johann Heinrich ("Henry Fuseli", 1745–1832), Anna (1749–1772), and Elisabeth. Füssli died in Zurich in 1782. Publications Geschichte und Abbildung der besten Mahler in der Schweitz, (1754–1757), (Story And Illustration Of The Best Swiss Painters) Geschichte der besten Künstler in der Schweitz (1769–1779), (Story Of The Best Swiss Artists) External links Swiss portrait painters Swiss art historians 1706 births 1782 deaths Artists from Zürich 18th-century Swiss painters 18th-century Swiss male artists Swiss male painters Johann Caspar