Daryl Lindsay

Sir Ernest Daryl Lindsay (31 December 1889 – 25 December 1976) was an Australian artist.

He was the youngest son in a large family born to Anglo-Irish surgeon Robert Charles Alexander and Jane Elizabeth Lindsay (née Williams), of Creswick, Victoria, who had ten children. Daryl and his brothers Percy (the eldest), Lionel, and Norman, achieved distinction in the arts. Ruby, also an artist, became well known in artistic circles as the wife of the cartoonist/illustrator/journalist Will Dyson.

Prior to World War I, Daryl became a jackaroo near Collarenebri.

He served with the AIF in France.

Following his active service in France, in England he made a very substantial contribution to the advancement of military reconstructive surgery with the extensive set of images he produced for Sir Harold Gillies, while serving as Lieutenant D./E. Lindsay, the official "medical artist" at the specialist military hospital at Sidcup, in Kent.

He made many contacts in the art world and studied at the Slade School of Art in London.

He had moderate success with his paintings of white flowers - a difficult subject to capture successfully.

Returning to Australia he became fascinated with the ballet during first tour (1936–1937) of "Colonel W. de Basil's Monte Carlo Russian Ballet" (i.e., the Ballets Russes) to Australia, sketching them during rehearsals, as in their performances.