The Portrait of Dr. Shortt

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This paper considers who painted the portrait of Dr. Shortt, a painting that belongs to the City of Toronto but whose provenance is in some doubt. it explains that there are no signatures or marks on the painting to indicate who painted it and no one interviewed for this report knew who the artist was. The paper claims that there is speculation on the subject, however, and two artists in particular have been identified as possibly the artist of this work.

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"The purpose of this paper is to report on an investigation into the search for the name of the artist who painted a portrait of Dr. Shortt, a painting that belongs to the City of Toronto but whose provenance is in some doubt. To discover more about the artist, I conducted province research to try and determine who the artist was. There are no signatures or marks on the painting to indicate who painted it, and no one interviewed for this report knew who the artist was. There has been speculation on the subject, however, and two artists in particular have been identified as possibly the artist of this work. The first mentioned was Paul Kane, though Dennis Reid, a ..."

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