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Scene in the Northwest: Portrait of John Henry Lefroy, also known as The Surveyor, is a painting by Paul Kane circa 1845. It sold at auction in 2002 for C$5.1 million, making it the most expensive Canadian painting ever sold at that time. It was purchased by media magnate Ken Thomson, who donated it to the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 – February 20, 1871) [1] was an Irish-born Canadian painter whose paintings and especially field sketches were known as one of the first visual documents of Western indigenous life.
The painting Scene in the Northwest: Portrait of John Henry Lefroy by Paul Kane showing John Henry Lefroy, which had been in possession of the Lefroy family in England, garnered a record price at an auction at Sotheby's in Toronto on 25 February 2002, when Canadian billionaire Kenneth Thomson won the bid at C$5,062,500 including fees (US ...
Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 – February 20, 1871) was an Irish-born Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Oregon Country.
In 1993, when Paul Kane was starting out, he found a broken-down rental house, built in 1941, for $55,000 — around $170,000 in today’s dollars. ... Kane won’t declare the starter home dead ...
Paul Kane: Artist (Canadian West paintings) 1937 Thomas Keefer: Engineer, railroader (Hamilton Waterworks) 1938 Henry Kelsey: Explorer, fur trader 1931 John Kennedy: Civil engineer (Montreal harbour) 2001 William Frederick King: Surveyor, astronomer, civil servant (established Geodetic Survey of Canada, Dominion Observatory) 1959 Reverend ...
When the well is discovered, it uses up all the surveyor's tapes on hand, being more than 180 meters deep. Other trenches find the remains of the chapel, the Master's house, and the almshouses, as well as the cemetery, where a skull showing signs of leprosy is found. Within the chapel, an unusual double burial appears to be, as found in the ...
Paul Kane was an Irish-Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Oregon Country. Largely self-educated, Kane grew up in Toronto (then known as York) and trained himself by copying European masters on a study trip through Europe. He undertook two voyages through the ...