He threw down the "wretched mud cabins" occupied by his tenants and built new houses on his estate which were paid for be the sale of some of the family's most prized paintings, i.e., The Gastor Poussin and a Hobbema.
Ivan James Lindsay (born 8 July 1962) is a British private art dealer in Old Masters and Russian paintings who has established world record prices for many leading artists such as Canaletto, Goya and Hobbema.