Goya: The Portraits

Who? Francisco Goya (born 1746) is possibly the second most famous artist to come out of Spain after Picasso, but arguably without whom, the latter wouldn’t have existed. Lauded as the first contemporary artist by latter generations, Goya was a self-taught painter who rose through the ranks of the Royal Palace in Madrid, but today is mostly known for his macabre etching series The Disasters of War that depicts the atrocities of the battles between…