In 1919 Joan studied life drawing and painting under the head of the art school, Bernard Hall. 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. From 1916 to 1918 Joan was a pupil of Frederick McCubbin at the NGV’s, School of Drawing. Joan was related to the Boyd art family, and the potter Martin Boyd was her cousin.Īfter leaving school she enrolled in art classes at the National Gallery of Victoria ( NGV). Joan’s father was a well respected lawyer (later a judge) and was involved in the establishment of the National Gallery of Victoria’s, Felton Bequest. Her parents socialised with many of the National Gallery of Victoria’s early trustees including Professor Sir Baldwin Spencer. She was the daughter of Sir Theyre a’ Beckett Weigall and Annie Sophia Henrietta Hamilton. Joan Lindsay was born Joan a’Beckett Weigall on 16 November 1896 in St Kilda East, Melbourne. Despite her adult fame as an author and being married to a prominent member of the Lindsay family of artists, her own artistic life has been overlooked by many art historians, including those with a special interest in womens’ art.

The Lindsays had no children.Best known as the author of Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay began her creative life as a painter in Melbourne. Joan Weigall married Daryl Lindsay in London, on St. Lady Joan Lindsay was also also a talented oil and watercolour painter. The story is fiction, though Lindsay dropped hints that it was based on an actual event. It was made into a 1975 feature film by producers Patricia Lovell, Hal and Jim McElroy, and director Peter Weir. Picnic at Hanging Rock is her best known work.

Joan à Beckett Weigall was born in St Kilda East, Victoria, Australia.įrom 1916 to 1918 Joan was a pupil of Frederick McCubbin at the NGV’s, School of Drawing. Joan Lindsay was an Australian author, best known for her 'ambiguous and intriguing' novel Picnic at Hanging Rock

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