Luis Enrique Marcial Gomezjurado Flores (16 January 1891 – 21 September 1978) was an Ecuadorian painter, one of the most notable academic artists of the first decades of the 20th century.

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.

[1][4] In 1922, he married in Quito, with Rosario Solórzano Freire and in the same year he traveled to Panama, where he worked designing capitals for theaters, museums and churches of the Central American country.

In 1941, he won the First Prize in the Simón Bolívar Libertador Portraits Contest, an event organized in Ecuador by delegates from several American nations.

[3][4] In 1955, he won the second place in the III Biennial of Hispanic-American Art, held in Barcelona, Spain and in 1957 he painted his oil Miseria, obtaining favorable review.