Ivan Lindsay

Who is Ivan Lindsay?

Ivan James Lindsay is a British private art dealer in Old Masters and Russian paintings who has established world record prices for many leading artists such as Canaletto, Goya and Hobbema.

Lindsay was born in the London Hospital. He attended Eton College and is an alumnus of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He spent four years in the British Army as an Infantry officer in the Scots Guards in Southeast Asia and taught at the Jungle Warfare School in Brunei in 1982.

On his father’s side Lindsay descends from the Scottish clan Lindsay presided over by his uncle, Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, and on his mother’s side from the Capel Cure family and the Vorontsov’s, former Chancellors of Imperial Russia.

Lindsay married Mala Persaud of New York in 1995 and they have two sons Valentine Amar Lindsay and Leander Vikram Lindsay.

Lindsay is also a publisher, writer and lecturer. He has published museum catalogues for various smaller museums including the Southampton Museum and the Wallace Collection. He has written for magazines including Millionaire, Country and Town House, Spears WMS, Art Book Journal, Hermitage and Gstaad Life. He lectures on art and the art world and gave a talk at the 'Mensa at Cambridge 2008' conference at Magdalene College, Cambridge University in June 2008 on 'Art Theft through the Ages', a subject on which he is currently writing a book. Lindsay published a gallery of his Russian fine art in 2013.