State with Portuguese flavour home to Yankee artist (4)
I believe the answer is:
goya
'artist' is the definition.
(Francisco Goya)
'state with portuguese flavour home to yankee' is the wordplay.
'state with portuguese flavour' becomes 'goa' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'home to' indicates putting letters inside (some letters house or home others).
'yankee' becomes 'Y' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'goa' enclosing 'y' is 'GOYA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for goya that I've seen before include "Great Spanish painter who depicted horrors of war" , "Artist, died at Bordeaux, 1828" , "Spanish painter, d. 1828" , "his etchings?" , "Eighteenth and nineteenth century Spanish painter" .)