 In 1873, he moved to Rome and was elected president of the British Academy of Arts in Rome.He died, childless, on 17 September 1890.He endowed the Patrick Allan-Fraser of Hospitalfield Trust to establish Hospitalfield House as an art college "for the assistance and encouragement of young men not having means of their own who shall be desirous of following up one or more of the professions of painting, sculpture, carving in wood, architecture and engraving."