Seascape

Eliseu Meifrén was a well-known Catalan landscape artist who worked at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
After he had finished his secondary school studies, Eliseu enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine of Barcelona’s Universitat Literària, with the intention of following in the footsteps of his father, a dentist. However, at the end of the first year, he decided to leave university to devote himself to his artistic vocation, and he enrolled at the Escola de Llotja in Barcelona, signing up for the courses of drawing, colour, anatomy and perspective. A few early works have survived from this period, all of them of a very academic nature. Subsequently, Eliseu travelled to Paris on a study grant. It was there that he met the painters Casas and Rusiñol and their group. After he returned to Barcelona he paid regular visits to Sitges, where he became influenced by luminism and the modernist style, though he approached it with a certain aesthetic conservatism. Meifrén was a regular at the gatherings at the Quatre Gats bar.
He mainly painted landscapes and seascapes, in which he showed a great desire to discover and depict new landscapes, as is the case in this work.