His brother John Lizars, surgeon (d.1860) lies with him. The grave lies on the small mound, south-west of the church. Lizars took an active part in the foundation of the Royal Scottish Academy. From 1808 to 1815, Lizars was a frequent exhibitor of portraits, and of sacred and domestic subjects, at exhibitions in Edinburgh. In 1812 he sent two pictures to the Royal Academy in London, "Reading the Will" and "A Scotch Wedding". They were admired, were hung on the line, and were engraved. They went to the National Gallery of Scotland at Edinburgh. He engraved "The Ommeganck at Antwerp", after Gustave Wappers, for the "Royal Gallery of Art", and "Puck and the Fairies", after Richard Dadd. He also engraved plates of Scottish scenery for publications, and the "Anatomical Plates" of 1822 for his brother John. Two pictures of churches by Lizars were in the Royal Scottish Academy's collection. There was a pencil drawing by him, done in 1815, of John Flaxman, in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.