José Alcoverro

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Isidore of Seville, 1892

José Alcoverro y Amorós (Tivenys, Tarragona, 1835 — Madrid, December 1908) was a Spanish sculptor, a pupil of José Piquer. He was a virtuoso modeller who specialised in realistic portraiture, and whose penchant for realism animated both his religious compositions, often selected for their inherent drama, such as the Ishmael Fainting of Thirst (1867), which brought him to public attention)^[1] and his allegorical official commissions. He exhibited in the Madrid annual expositions from 1867 to 1907.

Agriculture in the Monument to Alfonso XII, 1907

Among his public monuments in Madrid are the figures (1892) of Alonso Berruguete, Alfonso X the Wise and Isidore of Seville (illustration, right) at the Biblioteca Nacional de España; a monument to Agustín Argüelles, (1902); figures of Economy and Bookkeeping (1904) on the façade of the Banco Central Hispano; allegorical figure of Agriculture (1907) on the monument to Alfonso XII, in the Parque del Buen Retiro (illustration, left)^[2]; and the monument to Padre Francisco Piquer, Monte de Piedad.