Eliseo Meifrén y Roig

Eliseo Meifrèn i Roig (24 December 1857/59, Barcelona – 5 February 1940, Barcelona) was a Spanish Impressionist painter.

Biography Following his passion for art, he gave up the study of medicine and enrolled at the Escola de la Llotja, where his teachers were Antoni Caba and Ramon Martí Alsina. In 1879, he went to Paris and supported his studies by selling small canvases and sketches of cityscapes. His style was, however, decisively influenced by a brief tour of Italy. Upon his return to Spain in 1881, he participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts.

The following year, he married, honeymooned in Paris, and settled there. His first personal exhibition came in 1890 at the Sala Parés in Barcelona, A few weeks later, his health worsened rapidly and he died in February, in his home city of Barcelona.