Lionel Lindsay, brother of Percy, Daryl, Ruby and Norman Lindsay , established a reputation both in Australia and overseas as an etcher, wood-engraver and water-colour painter. He was knighted in 1941 for his services to art. Lindsay also worked as a journalist and cartoonist for newspapers in Melbourne and Sydney, including the Hawk, the Free Lance and the Evening News, and illustrated numerous Australian books. An influentiial art critic, Lindsay published a provocative critique of modern art, Addled Art (1942), and studies of several Australian artists including A Consideration of the Art of Ernest Moffitt (1899) and Conrad Martens (1920).