Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) – IMS Photography https://ims.photography Ian Malpass-Scott Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:42:45 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 Juan Antonio Meléndez Valdés (1774–1817) https://ims.photography/2025/02/07/juan-antonio-melendez-valdes-1774-1817-2/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:36:00 +0000 https://blog.ims.photography/?p=1780 This warm and intimate portrait suggests the friendship that existed between Goya and his sitter who moved in the same liberal, intellectual circles of enlightened men known as ‘ilustrados’. Melendez Valdes was eight years Goya’s junior. He may well have met the artist at Saragossa in 1790 when he was a judge there. The portrait was possibly painted in the late spring or summer of 1797, when Valdes was disappointed to not secure the post of Public Prosecutor in April that year. It would certainly explain the melancholic expression on his face. However, 1797 remained an important year for Valdes, since the publication of the first important collected editions of his poems came out in April, while he was appointed Prosecutor to the Municipal authorities in Madrid in October.

Provenance: Private collection

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Francisco de Goya (1746–1828)
Date: 1797

Image Details
Date: 7 Feb 2025
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Telephoto Camera 52mm ƒ/2.4
Focal Length: 52mm
Aperture: ƒ/2.4
Shutter Speed: 1/33s
ISO: 640
Licensing: Image of a Bowes Museum asset. This image cannot be licensed.

]]> Interior of a Prison https://ims.photography/2024/05/12/interior-of-a-prison/ Sun, 12 May 2024 18:36:00 +0000 https://blog.ims.photography/?p=1388 The prison scene belongs to a series of twelve ‘cabinet’ pictures that Goya painted on tinplate between 1793 and 1794 during his convalescence from his mystery illness.

In 1862 John and Joséphine Bowes made several purchases at the sale of the collection of the Conde de Quinto who had died in 1860. The Boweses purchased this painting together with Goya’s portrait of Juan Antonio Melendéz Valdés and over seventy other Spanish paintings

Provenance: Founders bequest

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
Material: Oil on tinplate
Artist: Francisco de Goya (1746-1828)
Date: c. 1793-1794

Image Details
Date: 12 May 2024
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/33s
ISO: 320
Licensing: Image of a Bowes Museum asset. This image cannot be licensed.

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