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Source: Past and Present of the
City of Zanesville, and Muskingum Co., Ohio - Published Chicago: The
S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1905 - Page 240 |
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ALFRED RONCHETTI,
artist and decorator at Zanesville, came from Geneva, Switzerland,
and is a son of Charles Ronchetti, who was a silk
manufacturer and also displayed considerable talent and ability as
an artist. In Italy, France and Switzerland, Alfred
Ronchetti developed his artistic taste and talent and thoroughly
learned the business of an artist decorateur, displaying more than
ordinary ability in that direction.
On coming to the United States in 1902, he first
located in Chicago, where he remained for several months, and then
came to Zanesville. Here he decorated the new Weller Theater
and the Presbyterian church and afterward secured the contract for
the decoration of St. Peter's church at Fairmount, West Virginia.
The Cook Hospital at that place is also a monument to his skill as a
decorator and he has many testimonials of his excellent work.
In the fall of 1904 Mr. Ronchetti returned to
Zanesville, where he has opened a studio and here may be seen a
number of the fine pictures which are the result of his brush, he
having gained a high reputation as a landscape artist, though his
specialty is interior decorations. He has taken a number of
important contracts throughout the state and is to-day the
leader in his line in Zanesville, his services being in constant
demand for the decoration of public buildings and private residences
in the city. At present he is at work on the Ohio University
at Athens. His work has received most favorable notice from
the newspapers and added to these he has many flattering
testimonials form different parties who have employed him in the
line of his chosen profession.
Source: Past and Present of the City of Zanesville, and
Muskingum Co., Ohio - Published Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Co. - 1905 - Page 833 |
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