Gabriel Puig Roda studied art at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in Valencia, where he entered in 1879 thanks to a scholarship from the Diputación de Castellón. Again with a scholarship he went to Madrid to further his studies at the San Fernando School. There he obtained the pension to go to Rome in 1889, where he remained until 1892.

In the Italian capital, in order to perfect his use of watercolour, he attended classes at the Academia Chigi and the Círculo Internacional de Bellas Artes, showing the influence of his Italian contemporaries in his work during these years. By 1890 he had gained a certain international public, to whom his proxy sold panels and watercolours. His first Roman period came to an end at the end of h...