Román Navarro combined his military career with his studies in painting at the School of Arts and Crafts in La Coruña. Thanks to a scholarship from the Provincial Council, he furthered his artistic training in Rome and later traveled throughout Europe. Upon his return, he was assigned to Barcelona as a drawing instructor and later returned to La Coruña as a professor and director of the School of Arts and Crafts. There, he taught prominent painters such as Souto Cuero, Morlli, Vaamonde, Francisco Llorens, and Luis Mosquera. He contributed to magazines of the time and participated in the National Fine Arts Exhibitions of 1890 and 1897, receiving an honorable mention at the latter. He was also awarded a gold medal at the 1888 Santiago de C...