Antonio Maria Fabres y Costa was born in the town of Grcia now a district of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. 제도공의 아들이자 은세공인의 조카로 태어난 그는 어린 시절부터 예술적 재능이 뛰어났습니다. He worked as a sculptor which he later abandoned, genre painter, watercolorist and illustrator.