Art Dealer Tim Klingender Found Dead in Sydney Harbour

Tim Klingender, director of Aboriginal Art at Sotheby's Australia, straightens the painting "Uluru" (1967) by Rover Thomas at Sotheby's in Melbourne, on July 26, 2004. AAP Image/Julian Smith

Tributes are pouring in for leading Indigenous art dealer Tim Klingender, who was killed in a suspected boating accident in Sydney Harbour.

Friends and associates confirmed a body found in the water at Watsons Bay, in Sydney’s east, on Thursday morning was that of the 59-year-old.