Victor Casnelli
Victor Casnelli was born in 1876, the son of Antonio Casnelli and
Carolina Brinnellia. He died in 1961 in Muskegon Michigan, and was listed in the
Artists of the American West.
Cincinnati Enquirer, Sunday, 11 July 1897, page 32
Mr. Victor Casnelli has found the secret of staying cool, i.e. he has been painting a very pretty snow scene, which greets the visitor on the right as he enters the studio. Mr. Casnelli now has upon his easel a large canvas entitled "twilight." It is rich in autumn foliage, with an abandoned old mill occupying a conspicuous place. There is a rustic bridge and a deep, cool looking stream below the old wheel, which is perfect in repose. The sun has just fallen. Mr. Casnelli's last pastel is a fine moonlight marine. It is a good piece of coloring and the moon is just breaking through the clouds. Mr. Casnelli will to to Put-in-Bay for a portion of August.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Sunday, 29 August 1897, page 26
Mr. and Mrs. Will Kiappert, of Riverside, entertained the following well known artists: J C McGregor, Victor Casnelli and A Rousel and their families and Miss Elva Cloon and Alice Thompson of Ripley Ohio, with an outing at Stony Point last Tuesday.
Page 32-Mr. V Casnelli, who has decorated a number of beautiful homes in this vicinity and has done interior decorations in several large buildings, has been engaged for some days past in decorating the Walnut Street Theater.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Tuesday, 27 March 1900, page 12
In the case of Rhoda Casnelli against Victor Casnelli, a divorce decree has been entered on the ground of absence and neglect and she is restored to her maiden name of Vinson.
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Cincinnati Post, Saturday, 28 February 1903, page 1
Given up by his friends for dead, Victor Casnelli, an artist, with studio and living rooms on the fifth floor of the Pike Building up to its destruction by fire Thursday, caused a profound surprise by appearing Friday night. Casnelli relates a most thrilling story of his escape with Joseph A William, an engraver and an artist named Brown, who worked and slept in their studio, adjoining his. All three of the men were believed for a time by their professional friends to have perished in the flames.
Casnelli's rooms were in the extreme southwest corner of the building on the top floor. He said: "I had just finished up some pen drawings I was making and about 1 am after my lunch, I went to bed. I was just dozing off when I heard a tremendous racket outside and looking out saw the fire engines at work upon our building. I have had experience with five fires in the Pike and Williams, Brown and I had an agreement to call each other in case anything happened. I called them and we made our way down through the smoke, which was already filling the building. The smoke was stifling and we could feel the heat when we ran across the second floor hallway to the stairs leading to Fourth Street from the theater gallery."
Casnelli and his friends some time ago constructed a rope ladder and several times practiced descending from the fifth floor of the Pike to Baker Alley. Casnelli has taken up quarters for the present at Eighth and Vine streets.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 9 April 1904, page 5
Victor Casnelli, a former Newport boy and an artist of note, was married Thursday to Miss Harriet Davis of Quebec Canada. She also is an artist and occupied the same studio and it was a case of love at first sight. He was married some years ago at Dayton Ky. his first wife having secured a divorce in the Campbell County Court.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Saturday, 9 April 1904, page 2
Victor Casnelli, the well known artist and Miss Harriet L Davis, of Quebec Canada, were quietly married Thursday by Rev Herbert Bigelow at the Congregational Church on Vine street. After the ceremony, which was performed in the evening, Mr. and Mrs. Casnelli and friends adjoined to the studio which Mr. Casnelli has occupied for some time. Here a number of friends called to wish joy o the newly wedded man and wife.
The romance began several years ago when Miss Davis came to Cincinnati to study art under Miss Hereford. She met Casnelli and it seems they understood immediately they were one another's affinities. Mrs. Casnelli is the daughter of a well known merchant of Quebec and a young woman of refinement and real ability as a painter.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Friday, 8 September 1905, page 5
The Art Committee of the Business Men's Club yesterday had a display of the new art pieces which it has just purchased for the club. There is a large Venetian scene by Casnelli.
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Cincinnati Post, Thursday, Thursday, 19 August 1920, page 3
Oil Paintings, Water Color Paintings; Signed by the artist and framed in gold. Your choice of the following at $22.50. Regular prices $30 to $100.
Arabian Sunset by Victor Casnelli, Regular Price $45