Roman Bratkowski was a Polish landscape painter. Between 1888 and 1890, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków under the guidance of Feliks Szynalewski, Izydor Jabłoński, and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz. He later continued his education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, studying with Christian Griepenkerl and Alfred Eisenmenger. From 1894 to 1896 (and later again), he attended the private school of Anton Ažbé in Munich.

Until 1919, he lived permanently in Lviv, where from 1903 he taught painting at Stanisław Batowski’s art school, and from 1912 he also served as a professor at the Free Academy of Art. He took part in exhibitions organized by the Lviv and Kraków Societies for the Promotion of Fine Arts and exhibited at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.

During the interwar period, Bratkowski lived in Italy, where he served as director of the Jan Styka Museum in Capri.