William Ayerst Ingram

William Ayerst Ingram (* April 27, 1855 in Glasgow, † March 20, 1913 in Falmouth, Cornwall) was a Scottish landscape and marine painter of the late Impressionism and a representative of the Newlyn School, an artists colony in the late 19th and early 20th century. He painted preferably with oil paints and watercolors.

Life and work

After his art studies William Ayerst Ingram could already from 1880 exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts his works. 1886 was followed by exhibitions at the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. 1888 showed Ingram together with Thomas Cooper Gotch and Alfred East at the Fine Art Society newly founded his works.

In the 80 years he was strongly committed to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1888 and supported James Abbott McNeill Whistler in his quest to remain president of the Society. In this year he was even president of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists, which was founded in 1887 by Thomas Cooper Gotch and Albert Chevallier Tayler later should also protrude.

In the Colonial Society were many artists of the Newlyn School Member, including Percy Robert Craft. This group of artists had met the mid-1880s and settled in Cornwall Newlyn near Ingram. Unlike most other members of the Newlyn School, however, Ingram did not pursue genre painting, but preferred marine painting. 1902 showed the Fine Art Society again his works.

Ingram traveled a lot and was founder and president of the Anglo-Australian Society. In 1906 he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and in 1907 the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. He died in 1913 at the age of 58 in Falmouth.