 This, together with the fact that she went to live with Goya in 1817 (as his housekeeper, officially) fueled speculation that Rosario was Goya's child; or certainly not Weiss' in any event.Goya began giving her drawing lessons, together with her first writing lessons, when she was only seven.She studied with him until age fifteen and then with architect Tiburcio Pérez from 1823 to 1824.