Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shondaland Audio in partnership with I Heart Radio.

If you've been joining us since earlier seasons, you may recognize this man's name from

our shows about stalkers. Arthur Welsley, first Duke of Wellington, famously stalked by

Lady Georgiana Fane, Ares, and daughter of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmoreland, and

holder of many government offices. The Duke of Wellington is probably best remembered

for his defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo. A military general, he became one of the leading

military and political figures of 19th century Britain, and his portrait also became a target

of theft from the National Gallery in London, though not for reasons you might imagine.

The Duke was once quoted as saying, the only thing I am afraid of is fear. We wonder how

he felt about Ransom? Welcome to Criminalia, I'm Maria Tremarkey.

And I'm Holly Fry. There are a couple of people we need to get to know surrounding

this art theft. The artist who painted the portrait, Francisco de Goya, the man who sat

for the stolen portrait Arthur Welsley, and the apparent thief, a man named Campton

Bunton. Let's start by talking about Goya and how he was given the honor of painting the

General's portrait. Goya is regarded as one of, if not the most important Spanish artist

of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was born Francisco José de Goya ilusientes

on March 30th, 1746, in the small town of Fuente Toto's near Zérezoga, Spain, in the

north-eastern Eragon region of the country. His father was José Francisco de Paola, a

gilder, and his mother, Gracia Lucientes, was a member of a weakened noble family. When

he was 14 years old, Goya began a four-year apprenticeship with Spanish Baroque painter

José Luzán, who had studied in Naples. In his late teens, so in 1763 and then again

in 1766, Goya participated in competitions sponsored by the Real Academia de San Fernando

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