Eusebio Güell y Bacigalupi (1846–1914), founder of the Park Güell, was a well-known member of Barcelonan society in the last century, a sort of Maecenas-cum-industrialist. He was an important businessman, with interests in shipping, textiles, cement, tobacco, and the wine trade, but also a patron of composers, poets, painters and architects. One of the many artists who benefited...