Francesc Miralles i Galaup (1848 – 1901)

He attended the then new Collegi Maristes Valldemia in
Mataró, where he began to scribble drawings in his notebooks
and became convinced that he should be an artist. When he
turned eighteen he moved to Paris. During his first years there,
he copied masterworks at the Louvre. He eventually had
several small studios in Monmartre and he exhibited regularly
at the Salon and the Sala Parés, back home in Barcelona.