Sir Ernest Daryl Lindsay was an Australian artist and member of the creative Lindsay family.

He was the youngest son in a large family born to Anglo-Irish surgeon Robert Charles Alexander and Jane Elizabeth Lindsay (née Williams), of Creswick, Victoria, who had ten children. Daryl and his brothers Percy (the eldest), Lionel, and Norman, achieved distinction in the arts. Ruby, an artist, became well known in artistic circles also as the wife of the cartoonist/illustrator/journalist Will Dyson.

Prior to World War I, Daryl became a jackaroo near Collarenebri and later served in the war in France. In England he became a medical artist for the Australian Imperial Force. He made many contacts in the art world and studied at the Slad...