<I>View of Lake Okanagan, British Columbia</I>

Grafton Tyler Brown, American, 1841 - 1918 · 1882

Prior to becoming a painter, Grafton Tyler Brown was a lithographer, cartographer, draftsman, and business owner of print firm G. T. Brown & Co. in San Francisco. In 1879 Brown sold his business and in 1882 moved from the Bay Area to Victoria, British Columbia, where he joined a geological survey party.