The Royal BC Museum purchases painting by 19th century African American artist Grafton Tyler Brown

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VICTORIA, BC - The Royal BC Museum has acquired an important landscape painting, a work of artistic and historical significance to British Columbians.

With the recent purchase of : A. L. Fortune Farm, Enderby, BC Oct 6, 1882, the Royal BC Museum now holds the greatest number and most significant of Grafton Tyler Brown's Canadian works in the world.