BEATTY, JOHN WILLIAM (1869-1941) Beatty served in the Riel Rebellion. He studied at Central Ontario School of Art under J.W.L. Forster. His overall style is realism with a touch of sentiment and his subject matter is that of the Group of Seven, the wilds of the Canadian northland. Beatty also studied at the Academie Julian in Paris. He was a teacher at Ontario College of Art 1912-41. O.S.A. 1901-02, R.C.A. 1913. He was a very good friend of Tom Thompson and J.E.H. MacDonald, and when Thompson died, MacDonald and he, went up to Canoe Lake to build the Cairn to mark the spot where he died.