Ivan Lindsay

Ivan James Lindsay (born 8 July 1962) is a British private art dealer in Old Masters, Impressionists and Russian paintings and sculpture 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 the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS). 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 currently headed 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 City in 1995 and they have two sons Valentine Amar Lindsay (born 4 November 1999) and Leander Vikram Lindsay (born 6 May 2001).

Lindsay is also a publisher, writer and lecturer. He has published museum catalogues for various smaller museums including the Southampton Museum (1998) and the Wallace Collection (2004). He has written for publications including the Guardian, Millionaire, Country and Town House, Spears WMS, Art Book Journal, Hermitage and Gstaad Life. He was the art writer and a Contributing Editor at Spears WMS magazine 2008 - 2014. He lectures on art and the art world. In 2008 he gave a talk at the 'Mensa at Cambridge 2008' conference at Magdalene College, Cambridge University on 'Art Theft through the Ages', a theme he expanded into a book, 'The History of Loot and Stolen Art' published by the Unicorn Press in 2013. In 2014 Lindsay gave talks at the Capital Speakers Club in Washington and the Festival of Ideas at York University. Lindsay published a website for his Russian art collection in 2013. In 2015 Lindsay produced and co-wrote, 'Masterpieces of Soviet Painting and Sculpture,' which is being published by the Unicorn Press and is planned for release in February 2016.