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Pompeo Luigi Coppini (1870-1957) was born in Moglia, Italy. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence with the highest honors and emigrated to America in March 1896, married Elizabeth de Barbieri in 1897, and became a naturalized citizen in 1902. Coppini came to Texas in 1901 when he was commissioned to create the equestrian statue of Terry's Texas Rangers at Austin. In 1902 he was commissioned to execute the Albert Sidney Burleson memorial, which he considered one of his best portrait statues. The Coppinis lived in San Antonio until 1916 when they moved to Chicago and later to New York. They moved back to San Antonio where Coppini lived and worked until he retired. He published his memoirs as From Dawn to Sunset in 1949 (San Antonio: Press of the Naylor Co.).

Coppini was a promoter of the fine arts. He was founder and president emeritus of the Coppini Academy of Fine Arts in San Antonio, and he once headed the Fine Arts Department at Trinity University in San Antonio. He received an honorary degree from Baylor University in 1941, as well as many other prestigious awards, and he belonged to numerous clubs and fraternities. He was decorated posthumously with the Star of Italian Solidarity. Among his most notable works are the Littlefield Memorial Fountain at The University of Texas at Austin; the Heroes of the Alamo cenotaph in San Antonio; the equestrian statue of General John Hunt Morgan in Lexington, Kentucky; the John H. Reagan monument in Palestine, Texas.

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