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John Gillespie (1841-1849): A Toronto Landscape Pioneer John Gillespie, a Canadian artist active primarily between 1841 and 1849, remains an enigmatic figure in the annals of Victorian landscape painting. Despite limited biographical information surviving from his lifetime, his singular contribution – namely ‘View of King Street, Toronto’ – cemented his place as one of the earliest practitioners of plein air painting within Ontario's…
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