Lefevre James Cranstone b. 1822

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Painter, illustrator and etcher. Apparently visited Queensland sometime during the 1880s.
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Painter, illustrator and etcher, worked in England specialising in narrative paintings (in the manner of W.P. Frith). He apparently visited Queensland in the 1880s, arriving c.1880. Watercolours sold by descendants via Christie’s Melbourne 1973.

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1996
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