Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The boot is on the other foot

The boot is on the other foot

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Original – A picture with a fascinating history. When Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington entered Madrid during the Peninsular War, the Spanish artist Francisco Goya started his portrait—it accounts for the slightly strained, haunted look in his eyes—and showed the sitter in red uniform wearing his Peninsular Medal. By the time the painting was displayed in 1814, Wellington had been awarded the Order of the Golden Fleece and Military Gold Cross with three clasps and Goya had altered the painting to add these, also showing Wellington in full dress uniform with gold braid. The painting was stolen from the National Gallery in August 1961, but returned in July 1965; in the interim a copy appeared in the 1962 James Bond film Dr. No.

Reason

Excellent scan of a superb painting

Articles in which this image appears

Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (Goya), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and 13 others

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Francisco Goya

• Support as nominator – SchroCat (talk) 10:00, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support Good digital reproduction. --Tremonist (talk) 13:55, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:26, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support, caption text is a bit long, perhaps shorten to two-sentences or less, to make it easier for other respondents to assess and respond, please? Thank you, — Cirt (talk) 03:21, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Jobas (talk) 11:46, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support –Hafspajen (talk) 13:25, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 18:56, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
• Comment The image is plainly inauthentic. It comes from the National Gallery but the 2010 uploader saturated the image to his taste and also compressed it. It is actually quite unpleasant. Successive editors have done their bit improving it. I can not upload a new version (account too new?), so I made a new file. I can remember giving up a week's pocket money back in 1961 to help buy this painting for the nation. I would appreciate if we can feature the real thing. There's a Goya exhibition at the National Gallery right now incidentally. Hafsterix (talk) 00:24, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

  Strike !vote of sockpuppet, and remove the image added by them. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:44, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

• @SchroCat, Tremonist, Crisco 1492, Cirt, Jobas, Hafspajen, and Mydreamsparrow: See above. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:24, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
• Still like the 1st selection better. — Cirt (talk) 17:45, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
• Also prefer the first selection. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:58, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Francisco Goya - Portrait of the Duke of Wellington.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:52, 27 October 2015 (UTC)