William Ayerst Ingram

William Ayerst Ingram
Born	27 April 1855 Twickenham, Surrey, England
Died	20 March 1913 Falmouth, Cornwall, England
Nationality	English
Education	A.W. Weedon, John Steeple
Known for	Painter

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.

William Ayerst Ingram was born on 27 April 1855 in Twickenham, Surrey, England. His father was a vicar who was born in Glasgow, Scotland named Rev. G. S. Ingram who was at Staines in 1862 and the newly opened Vinewood Chapel in Richmond in 1871.

Ingram was the third son born to Reverend G.S. Ingram and his mother. It was first accepted that he would become a businessman, so it was later in his life that he began exploring artistic pursuits by studying with A.W. Weedon and John Steeple.

In 1882 Ingram moved to the Cornwall town of Falmouth. He married May Martha Fay, an American, by 1896. The couple lived in Tregurrian in Falmouth in 1911. Ingram died on 20 March 1913 in Falmouth.

He set up a studio in Chelsea, London. The same year he also founded the Anglo-Australian Society and was established as its President. By this time Ingram had well-travelled, including travels to Australia, according to a fellow artist and friend, George Percy Jacomb-Hood. He became the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists' President in 1888.

Having moved to Cornwall in 1882, Ingram established friendships with people from the Newlyn School, including Laura and Harold Knight.

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