Goya's Wellington: The Duke Disappears
James Whitfield on why the theft of a Spanish master’s portrait of a British military hero led to a change in the law.
On August 3rd, 1961 the National Gallery in London’s Trafalgar Square proudly unveiled its latest acquisition: what is known as the bust portrait of the Duke of Wellington by the Spanish master Francisco de Goya (1746-1828), painted during the Peninsular War and completed in 1814.
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