William Ayerst Ingram
William Ayerst Ingram (born April 27, 1855 in Glasgow , † March 20, 1913 in Falmouth , Cornwall ) was a Scottish landscape and marine painter of late Impressionism and a representative of the Newlyn School , an artist colony of the late 19th and early 20th centuries . He preferred to paint with oil paints and watercolors .
life and work
After studying art, William Ayerst Ingram was able to exhibit his works at the Royal Academy of Arts as early as 1880 . Exhibitions at the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors followed in 1886 . In 1888 Ingram showed his work together with Thomas Cooper Gotch and Alfred East at the newly founded Fine Art Society .
In the 1980s he was heavily involved in the Royal Society of British Artists and in 1888 supported James Abbott McNeill Whistler in his endeavors to remain President of the Society. In that year he himself became president of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists , which had been founded in 1887 by Thomas Cooper Gotch and who would later also be headed by Albert Chevallier Tayler .
Many Newlyn School artists were members of the Colonial Society , including Percy Robert Craft . Ingram met this group of artists in the mid-1880s and also settled in Cornwall near Newlyn. In contrast to most of the other representatives of the Newlyn School, Ingram did not practice genre painting , but preferred marine painting. In 1902 the Fine Art Society showed his works again.
Ingram traveled extensively and was the 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 of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors . He died in Falmouth in 1913 at the age of 58 .
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| SURNAME | Ingram, William Ayerst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish late impressionism painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glasgow , Scotland |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1913 |
| Place of death | Falmouth , Cornwall , England |