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Hostilities between North American colonists and Britain were boiling over in the 1770s when Benjamin West painted this double portrait. The British wanted to ensure the loyalty of the Mohawk people, the easternmost tribe of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), in case of war.
1984 Georgian Canada: Conflict and Culture, 1745-1820, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Anthony van Dyck painted this portrait of an upper-class Antwerp woman around 1618, shortly after he registered as a master painter with the Antwerp Saint Luke’s Guild. At that time, Antwerp’s long-established portrait tradition emphasized a sitter’s virtuous character through restrained gestures and a direct gaze.
Boston and Toronto, 1974: 116. 1975 European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary

Peter Paul Rubens’s enormous painting, based on the Old Testament story of Daniel, puts us right in the lions’ den. The Jewish youth was condemned to spend the night with the brutal beasts for worshipping his God rather than the Persian king Darius.
San Francisco, de Young, Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

2001-2002, no. 60, repro. 2004 Turner, Whistler, Monet, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Gauguin purposefully displayed his Père Paillard and its female companion piece, Thérèse, in front of his Polynesian home (which he named the House of Pleasure), so that islanders passing by could appreciate the two carved works. Their meaning was evident to everyone.
1981 Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Lewisburg, London and Toronto, 1993: repro. 18 1994 Rubin, James H.

This painting, one of two views of Mortlake Terrace painted by Turner, is a view from the house, looking directly west into the luminous glow of the setting sun. Turner established the quiet mood of the late-afternoon scene with two ivy-covered elm trees, whose soft, feathery leaves and curving limbs frame the painting.
, no. 36, color repro. 2004 Turner, Whistler, Monet, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Walker, Self-Portrait with Donors: Confessions of an Art Collector (Boston and Toronto

Summer is represented here as Ceres, goddess of agriculture, reclining in front of her attribute, a row of wheat stalks. The work is one of three known paintings from a cycle by Jacopo Tintoretto depicting the personifications of the four Seasons.
Paolo Veronese with a group of sixteenth-century Venetian drawings, Art Gallery of Toronto

Materiality, and Composition in Italian Renaissance Art Giancarla Periti, University of Toronto