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Landscape painter in oil and watercolour and administrator. Born at Creswick, Victoria, Australia, brother of the artists Norman and Lionel Lindsay. After initial education in Australia he worked as a bank clerk, served in World War I, then attended the Slade School of Fine Art, London, 1919. Returned to Australia where he painted for 20 years. Then became keeper of prints at the National Gallery of Victoria for two years and its director, 1941–56, when he was knighted. Exhibited RA, Cooling Galleries, RWS, Arthur Tooth and Son and widely in Australia. Work in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum and many Australian galleries. Lived at Baxter, Victoria, Australia.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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