Rose Lindsay

Rose Lindsay (5 July 1885 – 23 May 1978), née Rosa Soady, was an Australian artist's model, author, and printmaker.

Early life Rose Lindsay (née Soady) was born in Gosford, New South Wales on 5 July 1885 and named Rosa.

Career

Artist's model

She was introduced to Norman Lindsay in 1902 by Julian Rossi Ashton, and began modeling for Lindsay that same year. She became his principal model and later his lover, and after his marriage ended she joined him in London in 1910. However, Julian Rossi Ashton, who was the president of the Society of Artists, said he would withdraw all the New South Wales paintings from the exhibit unless Crucified Venus was shown again, and it was put back up within the week.

Printmaker Rose was a skilled printmaker working with an etching press. In the 1960s Rose compiled seven albums of hundreds of pencil sketches and proof etchings by Norman Lindsay, an almost complete record of his etchings from the early 1900s until the 1950s.

Author Rose wrote two autobiographical books in her seventies. Ma and Pa (1963) were later republished in a single volume as Rose Lindsay: A Model Life (2001). They had two children, Helen and Janet.