Simó Gómez

Simó Gómez Polo (11 November 1845 – 11 June 1880) was a Spanish painter and engraver in the Realist style.

He was born in Barcelona, and studied at the Escola de la Llotja under Ramón Martí Alsina and in the lithography workshop of Eusebi Planas.

[1] At the age of seventeen, he travelled to Paris with his brother Enric, who was also an engraver, with the intention of finding employment in the workshop of the French lithographer Alfred Lemercier.

He received several commissions at that time, including a project to decorate the Palace of the Marqués de Portugalete [es], together with the painter José Marcelo Contreras.

Upon returning home, he opened a studio in the Poble Sec district, which served as a meeting place for the local art community.