Eliseu Meifrèn

Following his passion for art, he gave up the study of medicine and enrolled at the Escola de la Llotja,[1] where his teachers were Antoni Caba and Ramon Martí Alsina.

His first personal exhibition came in 1890 at the Sala Parés in Barcelona,[1] where he presented seventy oils and surprised everyone by auctioning off the works that did not sell, with his friend Santiago Rusiñol acting as the appraiser.

He arrived there in 1903, held his first exhibition shortly after and organized a large exposition of Catalan painters in 1904, including five pastels by Pablo Picasso.

He continued to travel however, to France, Italy, Buenos Aires and Brussels, where he participated in the International Exposition, winning the Silver Medal.

[2] In 1915, he travelled to the United States to promote himself at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, receiving honorable mention, and won the Grand Prize at an exhibition in San Diego.