Barcelona painter of English descent decided to go to Olot, to personally treat the painter he admired, Joaquim Vayreda. To go from Barcelona to Olot, a town that at the time was still walled, was a fifteen-hour journey.

Influenced by the French realist painters of the Barbizon school, he also traveled to Paris on the recommendation of his teacher in 1889, and was able to see the impressionist works that made his landscapes more dynamic and his paintings freer. Enric Galwey, together with Modest Urgell and Lluís Graner, created the Artistic and Literary Society of Catalonia, which included artists, writers and collectors from Barcelona’s high society, with a conservative tendency.

Oil on canvas

62x86 cm

Enric Galwey, 1864 - 1931