William Ayerst Ingram

William Ayerst Ingram or W. Ayerst Ingram RBA (27 April 1855 Twickenham, Surrey – 20 March 1913 Falmouth, Cornwall) was a painter and member of the Newlyn School. He did notable Landscape art and Marine art. In 1906 he joined the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and in 1907 he joined the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours.

Personal life and education William Ayerst Ingram was born on 27 April 1855 in Twickenham, Middlesex, England. His father, Rev G. S. Ingram, was born in Glasgow, Scotland and served as the minister of Twickenham Congregational Church 1854-1864 and Vineyard Congregational Church, Richmond, Surrey 1864-1888. Ingram was the third son born to Reverend G.S. Ingram and his mother. It was first accepted that William would become a businessman, so it was later in his life that he began exploring artistic pursuits

A Highland Landscape With Figures Near A Loch, watercolour A Noontime Rest, watercolour A Sailing Ship at Sea, watercolour A Snow Covered Forest, watercolour A Tidal Harbour, oil An English Two Mast Top Sail Schooner Off Falmouth, watercolour At Anchor, oil Cockle Gatherers, watercolour Falmouth, watercolour Falmouth Bay, bodycolour and watercolour Falmouth Harbour, watercolour Falmouth Town from the Water Fishing boat in the Hayle estuary HM Training Ship 'Ganges' Uploading Grain – Falmouth Holyloch Argyllshire, oil Horse And Cart On Beach Loch Ranua Castle, oil Moored Alongside in a River Estuary, watercolour Morphets Mussel gathering at Low Tide Newlyn Harbour, 1884 Restronguet Point and Feock Sailing Boats In A Choppy Sea, watercolour Sailing Boats Off The Cornish Coast, watercolour Sailing Ship At Sea Sailing Ship at Sea with Ghost Freighter, oil Seascape With Sailing Vessel In Foreground, watercolour Ship At First Light, oil Ship of the Line under Tow Shipping Ships at Sea, watercolour Still Life With Ducks, A Basket Of Fruit And A Pot On A Ledge The End of the Voyage, 1894, oil The First Flood, oil The Harbour Under the Hill, 1880, pencil and watercolor The Home Port, Falmouth, 1912 The Return of the Herring Boats, watercolour The Rising Moon, oil The Seaweed Gatherer, watercolour The Wreck, watercolour Trawler Becalmed Off Torquay, watercolour Trawlers at Tenby, 1889 Whitby, watercolour Yachts Becalmed, watercolour

His works, which have been compared to those of the painter Henry Moore and are in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia; Public Galleries in Otago, New Zealand and Bendigo, Victoria and the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.

Memberships Ingram was a member and Vice-President or President of some of the following organisations:

Anglo-Australian Society – Founder and President Royal British Colonial Society of Artists – 1888 President Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Falmouth (RCPS) – 1901–03, Vice-President 1902–04 Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours – 1907 Royal Institute of Oil Painters – 1906 Royal Society of British Artists Royal Society of Painter-Etchers

Exhibitions Ingram exhibited at Dowdeswells, Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, Whitechapel, NWS in 1886 and the Fine Art Society in 1888 and 1902.

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