Coutts Lindsay

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Sir Coutts Lindsay, 2nd Baronet (2 February 1824 – 7 May 1913

watercolourist.[2]

Life

Lindsay was the eldest son of

Italian Legion during the Crimean War before retiring from military life to devote himself to art. From 1862 to 1874 he exhibited many pictures, including various successful portraits. In 1879 he and his first wife, Lady Lindsay (of Balcarres), were both elected to membership of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours. His studio at 4-5 Cromwell Place was also used by Archibald Stuart-Wortley
.

He and his first wife founded the

National Gallery). She also published several volumes of poetry, including From a Venetian Balcony (1903) and Poems of Love and Death
(1907).

Marriages

St Andrew's Church, Ham

He first married in 1864 to the distinguished artist, novelist and poet

Nathan Meyer Rothschild). Her portrait by Joseph Middleton Jopling is at the National Portrait Gallery, London.[5] His daughter Harriet Euphemia Susan Lindsay married Thomas Selby Henrey, who was father of Robert Selby Henry, who was father of Bobby Henrey
.

Lindsay's first marriage broke down after his founding of the Grosvenor Gallery, with Lady Lindsay taking control of it. They lived separately until her death in 1912; Lindsay's second marriage, in 1912, was to Kate Harriet Burfield (d. 1937). He is buried at St Andrew's Church, Ham.

Works

Plays

Bibliography

  • Walkley, Giles, Artists' houses in London 1764–1914, Aldershot, 1994

Casteras, Susan P., Colleen Denney, The Grosvenor Gallery: a Palace of Art in Victorian England, New Haven, 1996 The Annual Register 1913, p. 95

  • Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, on-line edition (accessed 2004).

External links

References

  1. watercolour of Sir Coutts Lindsay, 2nd Bt is in the National Portrait Gallery, London
    .
  2. ^ "Sir Coutts Lindsay". The Times. 9 May 1913. p. 9 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  3. ^ thepeerage.com Sir Coutts Lindsay, 2nd Bt
  4. ^ "Author: Lady Caroline Blanche Elizabeth Lindsay (1845–1912)". At the Circulating Library: a database of Victorian fiction, 1837-1901.
  5. ^ "Caroline Blanche Elizabeth (née FitzRoy), Lady Lindsay". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 23 August 2022.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Lindsay, Sir Coutts". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 31 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 770.

Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Coutts Trotter
 Baronet
(of West Ville)
1837–1913 		Extinct
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