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Place of Birth: Creswick, Victoria, Australia
About Percy Lindsay
- Percival (Percy) Charles Lindsay (17 September 1870 – 21 September 1952) was an Australian landscape painter, illustrator and cartoonist, born in Creswick, Victoria.
- Percy was the first child born to Jane Lindsay (née Williams) and Dr Robert Charles Lindsay.
- His siblings included the well-known artists: Sir Lionel Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Ruby Lindsay and Sir Daryl Lindsay. Percy first began painting while at school and further developed his skills during the late 1880s.
- Tuition from Fred Sheldon and Walter Withers saw him develop his painting skills to a professional level. Lindsay moved to Melbourne in the 1890s and worked as an illustrator and cartoonist.
- During his time in Melbourne.
- he was at the centre of the city's bohemian art community.
- In 1918 he moved with his wife and child to Sydney, where he continued to paint landscapes while working as a cartoonist on The Bulletin magazine. Percy is the least known of the five Lindsay artists and is best remembered for his fine landscape paintings and his happy carefree personality.
- The artist had a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery (BFAG) in 1975.
- An accompanying essay by the then BFAG director Ron Radford was included in the exhibition catalogue.
- A biography on the artist was published by Australian Scholarly Publishing in 2011.
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