# After 1814 Goya remains a court painter to restored Fernando VII while liberals are punished

Date: 1814

## The fact

In 1814 [Goya](/people/francisco-goya) remained a court painter under restored Fernando VII.

It is one event.

## Context

One year, two paths. Split humanitarian pictures. Medium confidence on unique police coefficient.

Francisco Goya’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Fernando VII’s 1814 restoration crushed Cadiz liberalism. Goya painted the 2 May/3 May canvases as a royal commission in that year and kept court ties. He did not run the police. Remaining a court painter under restored absolutism is the political-position path; the same year’s anti-atrocity canvases are siblings.
Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

Prado chronology and Britannica independently place 1814 restoration and Goya’s continued court status.

Official or archival record: Museo Nacional del Prado (https://www.museodelprado.es/en; Museo Nacional del Prado).

## Significance

Court continuity under restored absolutism is a resilience-cost path beside anti-atrocity canvases.

Keep the 1814 canvases on their own rows.

Court continuity under restored absolutism is a resilience-cost path beside anti-atrocity canvases.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1814 continued court painter under Fernando VII. Not established: that he drafted a purge list.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Francisco Goya.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

They are not a public rating.

## People

- Francisco Goya: https://factrail.ai/people/francisco-goya

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Goya
- https://www.museodelprado.es/en

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/goy-fernando-1814