Brief Biography-Antonio Maria Fabrés y Costa was a Spanish painter and sculptor. He studied at the Llotja School, or Escuela de la Lonja, in his home city of Barcelona. In 1875, Fabrés earned a scholarship to study in Rome. He spent ten years in Italy, where he established himself as a watercolourist and collaborated with a group of realist painters led by the Catalonian artist Marià Fortuny. From 1894 to 1902, he lived in Paris, where he set up a successful studio. The President of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz, summoned him in 1903 to fill the Inspector General of Fine Arts position at the Academy of San Carlos. In 1908, he settled back in Rome, where he spent the remainder of his days. His works are in several of the world’s most prestigious museums, especially in Barcelona.