Henry Wentworth Monk

Born near Ottawa, Monk (1827–1896) espoused millenarianism, the belief in the imminent return of Christ, and saw himself as a prophet. He advocated for a state in the Ottoman province of Palestine, where the righteous – Christian and Jew alike – would live. Monk holds a Greek New Testament in one hand, in the other a copy of the London Times. The open book and sealed newspaper imply that he is ordained to reveal how the prophecies of the Bible will unfold in the events of the present.