Francisco de Goya

Spanish painter and etcher (1746-1828), court painter to three kings, whose career runs from Rococo tapestry cartoons to the war reportage of the 3rd of May 1808 and the black paintings of his own walls — the documented arc from old-regime court art into modern painting. Deaf from 1792, exiled to Bordeaux in 1824, he died there in 1828.