Career
Percy was the first child born to Jane Lindsay (née Williams) and Doctor Robert Charles 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. 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.