150:. The Mechanics’ Institute included an art school that provided graphic arts education where Lindsay developed his skills. He took a position as a painter in the James Smart Manufacturing Company. While employed at Smart's he studied painting and sketching under Percy F. Woodcock, R.C.A. at the Brockville Ontario Government School of Art. This led him to a career as a professional artist and painter in oils and watercolour. In 1911 he became a part-time art instructor at the school and later succeeded Woodcock as the art instructor at the Ontario Government School of Art in Brockville, a position that he held for 12 years. He also taught drawing at the St. Alban's Boys School. He sketched with Harold A. Pearl of Toronto, particularly in the Newboro-Westport District of Leeds County. He maintained a studio in Brockville from which he carried on a commercial art business as well as his artistic endeavours.
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Lindsay residence, Brockville, 1916. By Robert Henry Lindsay.
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