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Rovira y Brocandel, Hipólito
(b Valencia, 13 Aug 1693; d Valencia, 6 Nov 1765). Spanish painter and engraver. Almost entirely self-taught, he achieved great technical skill. He illustrated Jaime Cervera’s sermon Las tres púrpuras de Alzira (Valencia, 1707). Antonio Acisclo Palomina y Velasco asked Rovira y Brocandel to engrave the Allegoria de la pintura that he himself had drawn for the frontispiece of the first volume of his Museo pictórico y escala optica (1775). He engraved portraits, such as that of Padre Domingo Anadón (1716), of his patron, Marqués de Dos Aguas, and of Archbishop Company. Around 1728 he travelled to Rome to study, but on his return, after failing to establish himself in Madrid, he went back to Valencia. His career was cut short by illness. In 1759 the city of Valencia celebrated the Bourbon Charles III’s accession with a cavalcade, a representation of which was engraved by ‘H. R. F.’, which may be the initials of Hipólito Rovira or Hipólito Rovira y Meri (1691–1765).
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