William Ayerst Ingram - Horse And Cart On Beach

William Ayerst Ingram or W. Ayerst Ingram RBA (27 April 1855

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, Surrey – 20 March 1913

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) was a painter and member of the

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. He did notable

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and

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. In 1906 he joined the

Royal Institute of Oil Painters The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, also known as ROI, is an association of painters in London, England, and is the only major art society which features work done only in oil. It is a member society of the Federation of British Artists. Histor ...

and in 1907 he joined the

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Personal life and education

William Ayerst Ingram was born on 27 April 1855 in

, Middlesex, England. His father, Rev G. S. Ingram, was born in

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''William Ayerst Ingram.''
Cornwall Artists. Retrieved 3 October 2012.Christopher Wright.
British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections
'. Yale University Press; 24 August 2006 ited 4 October 2012 . p. 459. 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 by studying with

A.W. Weedon Augustus Walford (A.W.) Weedon was born in 1838 in London. He was a landscape painter in watercolour, and was the auditor of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1887 when James McNeill Whistler was President. His many scenes included works ...

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.

Career

He set up a studio in

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. 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 George Percy Jacomb-Hood (6 July 1857 – 11 December 1929) was a painter, etcher and illustrator. He was a founding member of the New English Art Club and Society of Portrait Painters. Early life Jacomb-Hood was born on 6 July 1857 at Redhill ...

. 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

, including Laura and

Harold Knight Harold Knight (27 January 1874 – 3 October 1961) was an English portrait, genre and landscape painter. Knight was born in Nottingham, England, the son of William Knight, architect, and studied at Nottingham School of Art under Wilson Foste ...

. In 1894 Ingram and two good friends Jack Downing and

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established the Falmouth Art Gallery. From 1902 to 1904 Ingram was the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society's Vice-President in Falmouth. His works for 1893 ''A P. & O. Voyage'' and 1902 ''Waters of the Old and New Worlds'' exhibits reflected his world-wide travel experiences. A ''Saturday Review'' of ''A P. & O. Voyage'' stated that Ingram was adroit at capturing the "convexity" of the sea waves, but fell short in capturing the reality of some of the scenes, such as of the Australian coast, which "for the most part is incredibly monotonous both in colour and scenery..."

Works

Ingram's works included outdoor scenes, such as

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s and

landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...

s, generally in oil and watercolour. A partial list of Ingram's work is: * ''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

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and are in the collections of the

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; Public Galleries in Otago, New Zealand and Bendigo, Victoria and the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.
Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
'. John W. Parker and Son; 1886. p. 124.

Memberships

Ingram was a member and Vice-President or President of some of the following organisations:
Year's Art
'. 1894. p. 87. * Anglo-Australian Society – Founder and President *

Royal British Colonial Society of Artists The Royal British Colonial Society of Artists (RBC) was founded in 1887 as the Royal Anglo Australian Society of Artists and received its royal charter under its later name in 1907. Its members were artists from Britain (notably members of the New ...

– 1888 President *

Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society (commonly known as The Poly) is an educational, cultural and scientific charity, as well as a local arts and cinema venue, based in Falmouth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The Society exists to promot ...

, Falmouth (RCPS) – 1901–03, Vice-President 1902–04 *

– 1907 *

– 1906 *

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* Royal Society of Painter-Etchers

Exhibitions

Ingram exhibited at Dowdeswells,

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, Royal Society of British Artists, Whitechapel, NWS in 1886 and the Fine Art Society in 1888 and 1902.

Gallery

File:William Ayerst Ingram - At Anchor.jpg, ''At Anchor'', oil on canvas File:William Ayerst Ingram - Sailing Ship At Sea.jpg, ''Sailing Ship at Sea'', oil on canvas

Notes

References

External links

William Ayerst Ingram
images of works
Falmouth Art Gallery holds seven of Ingram's works, two of which are included in the exhibition "Hemy and friends" 24/11/2012 to 2/2/2013
The seven paintings are online a

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