Charles C. Ingham

Charles Cromwell Ingham (1796 or 1797 – 10 December 1863) was an Irish portrait painter and later a founder of the New York National Academy of Design. Life Ingham was a descendant of a man who went to Ireland as an officer in Cromwell's army (hence his middle name). He was born in Dublin in 1796 or 1797, studying art from 1809 to 1813 at The Dublin Institution with William Cuming. It was the influence of Cuming that led to Ingham specialising in female portraiture, and he was also influenced by Martin Archer Shee. In 1810 and 1811, Ingham won prizes with the Dublin Society, and a premium from the Irish Institution in 1815 for this painting, "The death of Cleopatra", which is now lost. Ingham immigrated to the United States in 1816. He died in New York on 10 December 1863. Career