Follower of Francisco Goya

In the decades after Goya died in 1828, his way of painting became something other artists could learn and sell. Majas on balconies, bullfights, witches' sabbaths and crowds brushed in dark browns and sudden whites turned up in Madrid studios and on the art market across Europe. The best known of these painters was Eugenio Lucas Velázquez, who built a career on subjects in Goya's vein, and some of his pictures later passed as Goyas.

Follower of Goya is the label a museum gives to a picture painted in his manner by someone whose name has been lost. It claims less than attributed to, which would mean the museum thinks Goya probably painted it himself, and it says nothing about when the work was made or whether the painter ever knew him.

At the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston the label is used for a portrait of an officer on horseback.