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Christopher Baker is editor of the Burlington Magazine and an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh. He is a former director at the National Galleries of Scotland.
""There is much to commend in this clear and scupulously researched biography: the author's deep familiarity with the whole corpus of Fuseli's works, his informed sense of the milieus in which Fuseli moved in London and in Rome, and his treatment of Fuseli's origins and early ambitions. This biography sends the reader back refreshed to the fascinating contrasts in the arts of the turn of the 19th century, host to both the daylight restraint of neoclassicism and the wild night-time riot of devils, witches, dreams and fire.""-- ""Literary Review"" ""Creator of Nightmares is lean and engaging, in many ways an ideal introduction to the painter.-- ""Wall Street Journal"" ""The Nightmare (1781) is one of the most recognisable paintings in art history, but, Baker notes, its creator is more of a mystery. Here, he makes a case for Fuseli being 'one of the most provocative, inventive and fascinating artists' of the late 18th century.""-- ""Apollo""
