TY - JOUR T1 - Art: <em>Goya, The Portraits</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 41 LP - 41 DO - 10.3399/bjgp16X683305 VL - 66 IS - 642 AU - Alec Logan Y1 - 2016/01/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/66/642/41.abstract N2 - Goya, The Portraits The National Gallery, London 7 Oct 2015—10 January 2016This is a wondrous exhibition that is simply unmissable, the finest show assembled in the UK since the National Gallery’s Titians 10 years ago and it comes to an end on 10 January 2016. Drop everything.Why? Portraiture is living history. Take a Spanish obituary, New York Times, late 1960s; Dona Teresa Baltran de Lis y Pidal Gorouski y Chico de Guzman, Duchess of Albuquerque and Marchioness of the Atcanices and Balbases ... and so on for another five lines.1Francisco de Goya started earlier, in the 1790s. He painted the Bourbon royal family of Spain in all their awfulness, and homeliness, and stasis. Or should that … ER -