[2] Trozo was one of the more affluent portions of Manila at the time of his birth where many of its residents have better formal education and virtually all are fluent in Castilian Spanish.
Arevalo is a Filipino sculptor who won a gold medal in an exhibition in Spain for his work dubbed as El Baguio.
After this period, Nepomuceno became more independent and did works in wood and cement medium which are primarily used as ornaments in building facades.
[2] His work, a wooden figure of a boy playing sipa, was also part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
[4] Among his reputed works is the figure of St. Francis in Quiapo Church and a sculpture of Filipino nationalist José Rizal.