Modest Urgell Y Inglada was born in 1839 in Barcelona and died in 1919 in Spain. Modesto began his career as a theatrical actor, but his family's prohibition against him pursuing that path led him to devote himself to painting.

Urgell studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina, and later spent some time in Paris, where he came into contact with Gustave Courbet and became a follower of realism.

During the 1960s Modesto Urgell Y Inglada's works were rejected at the official exhibitions in Madrid and Barcelona. In 1870 he moved to Olot, where he became acquainted with Joaquín Vayreda, the creator of the local landscape school. From then on Urgell decided to devote him...