Early Life, Family and Training Thomas Corwin Lindsay enters the scene in Cincinnati, Ohio, born into a large family as the second of seven children. His parents, Thomas Lindsay and Elizabeth Lawrence Lindsay, raise him in a household that would see him eventually establish his own professional presence in the same city. He does not follow a traditional academic path at first. Instead, he develops his skills as an autodidact, teaching himself the complexities of painting through practice and observation rather than formal classroom instruction. By 1856 or 1857, the young painter opens a stu…