Later life On July 12, 1882 Cranstone's wife, Lillia, died. Shortly afterwards, Cranstone and two of his children, Beatrice Lillia and Frederic George, joined his third son, William, now a medical doctor, and his new wife, Ellen Kent, in moving to the small town of Clermont, Queensland, Australia. Here, Cranstone continued his paintings of the local land and seascapes. In 1889 he moved with Beatrice to Brisbane where he continued drawing local subjects up to his death on June 22, 1893. Works Cranstone's paintings are in the art collections of the White House; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Virginia Historical Society; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; the Oglebay Institute Mansion Museum in Wheeling, West Virginia; the Dacorum Heritage Trust in Berkhamsted, England; and other institutions and private collections.
Later life On July 12, 1882 Cranstone's wife, Lillia, died. Shortly afterwards, Cranstone and two of her children, Beatrice Lillia and Frederic George, joined her third son, William, now a medical doctor, and her new wife, Ellen Kent, in moving to the small town of Clermont, Queensland, Australia. Here, Cranstone continued her paintings of the local land and seascapes. In 1889 she moved with Beatrice to Brisbane where she continued drawing local subjects up to her death on June 22, 1893. Works Cranstone's paintings are in the art collections of the White House; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Virginia Historical Society; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; the Oglebay Institute Mansion Museum in Wheeling, West Virginia; the Dacorum Heritage Trust in Berkhamsted, England; and other institutions and private collections.