(b Valencia, 1837; d Madrid, 1899). Spanish printmaker and painter. He was a pupil of Luis Fernández Noseret and studied at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes in Madrid. At the Exposición Nacional in Madrid in 1864 Galván Candela showed both etchings and steel-engravings. From 1866 he was engraver at the Dirección de Hidrografía in Madrid. Although he was one of the best 19th-century Spanish etchers, he devoted himself mainly to engraving and religious painting. He executed reproductive prints of paintings by Velázquez, Murillo, Zurbarán and Rosales Martínez but is best known for those he made of Goya’s works. For example, he produced an album of prints (1888) after Goya’s frescoes (1798) in the Hermitage church of S Antonio de la Florida, Madrid. Galván Candela’s print, Ash Wednesday, after Goya’s painting in the Prado in Madrid, was awarded a medal at the Exposición Nacional in Madrid in 1897.