page_title: Enrique Gomezjurado
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Enrique Gomezjurado / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Español: Alumnos de la Escuela de Bellas Artes de Quito, 1908.
context_page_description: Luis Enrique Marcial Gomezjurado Flores was an Ecuadorian painter, one of the most notable academic artists of the first decades of the 20th century. He specialized in the human figure and excelled in the portrait, also highlighted in Genre painting.
context_section_description: He was born in Quito on January 16, 1891. He was the third son of Justo Pastor Gomezjurado y Gomezjurado and Mariana Flores Abarca, conservative landowners, his father from Ibarra and his mother from Ambato, settled in Quito in 1880.
  He studied at the school of De la Salle Brothers, and there he was student of Brother Miguel.
  In 1905, when he was 14 years old, he entered the School of Fine Arts of Quito, re-founded in 1904 by the Ecuadorian government, where he was a student of the Spanish painter León Camarero, among others.
  As a student at the Fine Arts school of Quito, he obtained his first honorific recognitions, in 1907 and 1908.
  In the National Exhibition of 1909 he obtained the Bronze Medal with two Natural Studies and in 1911 he dictated his first chair of Drawing in the Fine Arts School of Quito, and in 1916 he was professor of Drawing in the Juan Montalvo College.
caption: Students of the Fine Arts School of Quito. 1908. In the back row, on the left and standing Enrique Gomezjurado,
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