Goya (?????; Spanish ??oja) n (Biography) Francisco de (fran??isko de), full name Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. 1746?1828, Spanish painter and etcher; well known for his portraits, he became court painter to Charles IV of Spain (1799). He recorded the French invasion of Spain in a series of etchings The Disasters of War (1810?14) and two paintings 2 May 1808 and 3 May 1808 (1814)Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014Go?ya (?g?? ?) n. Francisco de (Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes), 1746?1828, Spanish painter. Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.