# Francisco de Goya artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-18T14:40:00Z
Quality: high confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1746-03-30
- Death date: 1828-04-16
- Nationality: Spanish
- Movements: Romanticism
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Engraving and lithography

## Portrait

![Francisco de Goya](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Vicente_L%C3%B3pez_Porta%C3%B1a_-_el_pintor_Francisco_de_Goya.jpg/1280px-Vicente_L%C3%B3pez_Porta%C3%B1a_-_el_pintor_Francisco_de_Goya.jpg)
Vicente López Portaña · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vicente_L%C3%B3pez_Porta%C3%B1a_-_el_pintor_Francisco_de_Goya.jpg

## About Francisco de Goya

Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and printmaker whose long career connected royal court culture with the historical upheavals of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Born in Fuendetodos near Saragossa and later dying in Bordeaux, he served during the reigns of Charles III, Charles IV, and Ferdinand VII. Museum records describe an unusually broad body of work encompassing hundreds of paintings, drawings, and prints. Goya is commonly associated with Romanticism, although his varied production extends beyond any single stylistic label. Collectors encounter paintings, independent drawings, and printed works that circulated his imagery more widely. His importance in appraisal settings reflects both this breadth and the different forms in which works connected with his name can appear. Identifying a particular object therefore requires more than matching the artist's name: medium, technique, date, inscriptions, edition information, provenance, condition, and the strength of attribution all require careful examination.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter paintings, drawings, engravings, lithographs, and other printed works associated with Goya. The British Museum describes a large output across painting, drawing, and printmaking, while Appraisily's matched auction records concentrate principally in fine art, works on paper, prints, and editions. For appraisal, the exact technique, paper or support, dimensions, inscriptions, edition details, condition, provenance, and attribution wording should be recorded before comparing sales.

## Market and appraisal context

Goya's auction market spans paintings, drawings, prints, editions, and other objects catalogued in connection with his work. Comparisons should be narrowed to examples sharing the same medium, approximate date, dimensions, subject, condition, and attribution status; results from unlike categories are not interchangeable. For prints and editions, inscriptions, edition or state information, paper, printing quality, and condition may be especially relevant. Provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, restoration, and recent comparable sales can also affect an appraisal. Appraisily's public-auction data provides useful market evidence, but it should not be treated as a price prediction. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, reporting differences, and revised attributions may not appear consistently in the observed record.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine identity research from museum and authority sources with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Public records are evidence inputs, not substitutes for authentication, condition review, or a complete appraisal.

## Sources

- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG29482
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5432
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/54343141/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/027323765
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/2274
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1353.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/francisco-de-goya/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vicente_L%C3%B3pez_Porta%C3%B1a_-_el_pintor_Francisco_de_Goya.jpg