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The Death of General Wolfe

Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)

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Portrait of Henry Wentworth Monk, 1858

William Holman Hunt
British, 1827 - 1910
oil on canvas
53.3 x 67.3 cm
Purchased 1911
National Gallery of Canada (no. 39)

Born in South March near Ottawa, Monk (1827-1896) espoused millenarianism, the belief in the imminent return of Christ, and saw himself as a prophet. His fervent faith, evangelicalism and rejection of established religion were important aspects of contemporary religious belief in North America. Monk’s causes included the establishment of an ideal state in the Ottoman province of Palestine where the righteous - Christian and Jew alike - would live. Hunt, an important figure in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, first met Monk in Palestine. Shared religious sympathy brought them together; this portrait was likely painted as a gift to Monk. In one hand Monk holds a Greek New Testament, presumably open to the book of Revelation, in the other a copy of the "London Times" tied with string and sealed with wax. The open book and sealed newspaper imply that Monk is ordained to reveal how the prophecies of the Apocalypse will unfold in the events of the present.

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