Xavier Bray is chief curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Manuela Mena Marqués is chief curator of 18th-century paintings at the Museo del Prado, Madrid. Thomas Gayford is a former research assistant at Dulwich Picture Gallery.
"A splendid monograph . . . Bray is a lively writer and has
contextualized the portraits by inserting them within a running
account of the artist’s life and times."—Jonathan Brown, Art
Newspaper
"[Bray] has given us Goya as his contemporaries knew him—as one of
the most expressive portrait painters of his age."—Ruth Guilding,
Evening Standard
"This important book brings Goya out of the shadows and rightly
shines a new light on a remarkable career and shows how influential
Goya became for later painters . . ."—London Visitor
"Accompanying a major exhibition at the National Gallery, the first
dedicated to Goya’s portraits, this excellent book greatly extends
our knowledge of the Spanish painter and the times in which he
lived."—Bill Spence, Yorkshire Gazette and Herald
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