Francisco De Goya was born in the year 1726, in Fuendetodos, Spain. He spent part of his childhood in Saragossa, Spain, where he started to study painting at the age of fourteen. He learned by reproducing the paintings of masters like Rembrandt. He then moved to Madrid to work with two brothers, Francisco and Ramón Bayeu y Subías in their studio. He later married their sister, Josefa. In the early 1770s, he went to Rome, Italy to study classical works. In Rome, he entered one of his paintings in an art competition held by the academy of fine arts, but it did not win first prize. In 1779, he became a painter for the royal court (the most elite position for an artist) after painting several tapestries for them. He became famous for his close