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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746 – 1828, Spanish)
A Romantic painter and printmaker, Goya is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Throughout his long career, he was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the Moderns. He was also one of the great portrait painters in the history of European art.
