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File:Kane The Surveyor.jpg

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Artist
Title The Surveyor: Portrait of Captain John Henry Lefroy or Scene in the Northwest
Date winter 1845/46
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 55.9 × 78.7 cm (22 × 31 in)
Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, Canada
Notes Original bought by Canadian billionaire Kenneth Thomson at an auction at Sotheby's in Toronto, Canada on February 25, 2002 for a price of just over C$5 million.
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