Before the days of global fine art ­shippers, painters achieved inter­national reputations through prints. The blockbuster exhibition has changed all that, though not so much in the case of Goya, who is still best-known for his excoriating etchings on the follies of society and the horrors of war.In his lifetime, though, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was more famous in Spain as a portrait painter, employed not to expose such things but to dress them up. This he did with remarkable success, retaining his position as First Court Painter to the king through three of the most turbulent decades in Spanish history. It was not until 1824, four years before his death, that his liberal allegiance obliged him to take refuge in France.Goya claimed Rembrandt, Velázquez and