Background
Joan à Beckett Weigall was born in St Kilda East, Victoria, Australia.
Joan à Beckett Weigall was born in St Kilda East, Victoria, Australia.
From 1916 to 1918 Joan was a pupil of Frederick McCubbin at the NGV’s, School of Drawing. Under his instruction she copied endless antique plaster casts of classical origin mostly using charcoal, this being a compulsory requirement before being allowed to enter the life and painting class. In 1919 Joan studied life drawing and painting under the head of the art school, Bernard Hall.
Picnic at Hanging Rock is her best known work. It was made into a 1975 feature film by producers Patricia Lovell, Hal and Jim McElroy, and director Peter Weir. The story is fiction, though Lindsay dropped hints that it was based on an actual event.
Lady Joan Lindsay was also also a talented oil and watercolour painter.
Joan Weigall married Daryl Lindsay in London, on St. Valentine's Day 1922. The Lindsays had no children.