Eugenio Lucas Velázquez

Eugenio Lucas Velázquez (1817–1870) was a Spanish Romantic painter whose dark, dramatic canvases of bullfights, Inquisition scenes, and witches' sabbaths were so closely modeled on Goya that many were once attributed to him. Working largely in Madrid, Lucas absorbed Goya's late painterly manner and became one of the most expressive Spanish Romantic painters of his generation, despite never receiving official Academy recognition.

Lucas painted in a Goyaesque idiom with thick impasto, dramatic chiaroscuro, and a smoldering palette of blacks, deep browns, and luminous flesh tones. His subjects favor crowded urban spectacle and grim Inquisitorial drama.

Lucas was the most direct and accomplished follower of Goya in nineteenth-century Spanish painting and produced influential Romantic interpretations of Spanish popular and historical subjects.