OIL PAINTING - Dubuque 1866

SIMPLOT, SMITH, PLAISTER, PELAN

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 7/13/2016 at 16:41:13

Dubuque Daily Herald, Sep. 30, 1866

OIL PAINTING – Mr. Alex Simplot has created for the Aetna Insurance Company, an oil painting, with a advertisement card containing a view of Dubuque, taken from from the bluff below Pelan's saw mill, and a representation of Mount Aetna in Italy, which the agents, Messrs. Smith & Plaister, donated to the Produce Exchange, and it now graces the walls of that institution, the work is well executed and gives a correct representation of Dubuque, more natural, we think than anything yet published in Dubuque. Mr. Simplot is an artist of much ability, and his productions are noted for their accurate delineations, either on paper or on cloth. He was a “sketcher' during the war for Harper's Weekly, and although at the present a dry goods merchant, has a taste for the art of drawing and painting.