Francisco Goya

Francisco Goya was a Spanish painter and printmaker from Aragon who rose from designing tapestries to become First Court Painter to Charles IV. Alongside unflattering royal portraits such as The Family of Charles IV, he made the print series Los Caprichos and The Disasters of War, and painted The Second and Third of May 1808, a protest against the brutality of the French occupation. Deaf after an illness in 1793, he grew darker in old age and painted the Black Paintings on the walls of his house before moving to Bordeaux, where he died. The National Gallery in London holds his portrait of the Duke of Wellington and Dona Isabel de Porcel, and the Bowes Museum has Interior of a Prison.