ABSTRACT
Think of a painting you know well—a realistic representational painting, not an abstract or entirely non-representational painting. If one isn’t leaping to mind, then Goya’s Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (1812–4) will do—it’s a half-length portrait with Wellington in three-quarter profile, wearing his red military coat and several decorations from his exploits in the Napoleonic Wars up to that point. The puzzle of depiction asks: what and how does the portrait depict?
