a famous US film made in 1941 by Orson Welles. It tells the story of the life of a very rich businessman who owned several important newspapers. Many people think it is the greatest film ever made
born Sept. 3, 1810, Mallow, Ire. died Feb. 20, 1871, Toronto, Ont., Can. Irish-born Canadian painter. His family immigrated to Canada in 1819. He worked mainly in Toronto but traveled as far as the Pacific coast depicting landscapes, Native American subjects, fur traders, and missionaries; he published an account of his adventures in Wanderings of an Artist (1859). Half of his paintings are portraits, works of great historical value in which he recorded the dress and ornaments of his subjects in accurate detail. He excelled at composing large figurative groups in a style similar to contemporary European genre painting