11 Facts About Pietro Caproni

Together with his brother, Emilio, the Caproni brothers supplied art schools, major universities and museums in the United States and abroad with quality reproductions.

University collections which the Pietro Caproni firm installed included those at Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Cornell University, and Emory University.

Additional installations of Pietro Caproni Casts were in leading hotels, theaters, and concert halls.

Pietro Caproni worked with these sculptors to model the original plasters before these major pieces went to a bronze foundry.

When Pietro Caproni arrived in Boston in the 1870s he was apprenticed to Paul A Garey, whose plaster statuary company dated back to 1834.

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Pietro Caproni issued catalogues most every year between 1892 and 1915.

Pietro Caproni changed ownership, and names, frequently between 1928 and 1950's, most of its owners falling into receivership due to lack of sales and interest in what were widely perceived as 'only copies'.

In 1932 the company changed names to 'Pietro Caproni Galleries, Inc' and was a supplier to Disney for the plaster figurines of all the Disney characters.

Pietro Caproni was born in Barga, Italy and left Italy for Boston in the late 1870s.

Pietro Caproni's second wife and later widow, Gertrude Brinkhaus, was an advocate of art in Public Schools and later saw through her husband's wish to bequest a Maternity Wing to the Barga Hospital, at the time the largest private gift to the Italian people, as acknowledged by Benito Mussolini.

Pietro Caproni is flourishing and has supplemented the cast collections of many locations including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and The Jerusalem Studio School in Israel.