# Daryl Lindsay artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/daryl-lindsay/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:17:57.565Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1889-12-31
- Death date: 1976-12-25
- Nationality: Australian
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Daryl Lindsay](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Portrait_of_Daryl_Lindsay%2C_ca._1930.jpg)
National Library of Australia from Canberra, Australia · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Daryl_Lindsay,_ca._1930.jpg

## About Daryl Lindsay

Sir Ernest Daryl Lindsay (1889–1976) was an Australian artist, painter and museum administrator who is also identified in public records as an art gallery director. Library and art-authority records preserve several forms of his name, including Daryl Lindsay and Ernest Daryl Lindsay, helping distinguish him from other members of the Lindsay name in Australian cultural history. His identity is represented across Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, the Library of Congress authority system and Art UK. Collectors may encounter works attributed to Lindsay in painting and general Australian-art auction contexts. The evidence collected for this profile establishes his national affiliation, lifespan and professional roles, but it does not securely identify a particular movement, recurring subject, named series or broader range of media. Those details should therefore be established from the individual work, its documentation and stronger collection or catalogue records rather than inferred from his name alone.

## Common works and media

Painting is the only work type directly established by the collected authority evidence. The source pack does not reliably document particular subjects, named series, print editions, drawings, sculptures or other media as common parts of Lindsay's auction market, so individual objects should be classified from their physical characteristics and documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

For a Daryl Lindsay appraisal, the first question is whether the work is securely connected to the same Australian painter identified by the major authority files. The collected evidence supports painting as a relevant category, while the public Appraisily artist page supplies an auction-record signal for comparable research. A useful comparison should match the object as closely as possible by work type, medium, date, dimensions, subject, condition and attribution status. Provenance, signatures, inscriptions and supporting documentation may also need independent examination. This source pack does not contain item-level auction-house descriptions, realized-price evidence, condition reports or edition data, so it does not support a price forecast or claims about market direction.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3016665
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/81197305/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500006471
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Lindsay
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Lindsay
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/daryl-lindsay/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Daryl_Lindsay,_ca._1930.jpg