Ingham, Charles Cromwell “William Fuller. From the Original Painting in the possession of the Gymnasium of New York”
Ingham, Charles Cromwell “William Fuller. From the Original Painting in the possession of the Gymnasium of New York”
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Ingham, Charles Cromwell “William Fuller. From the Original Painting in the possession of the Gymnasium of New York”

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Charles Cromwell Ingham (1796/7 – 1863).  “William Fuller.  From the Original Painting in the possession of the Gymnasium of New York.”  

New York: 1823.  19 ¾ x 13 5/8.  Engraved by A.B. Durand.  Stauffer, 586.  Old vertical crease at right, and expertly repaired tear 3” into upper right of image; spots in margins.  Else, very good condition.

A large engraving of the portrait of William Fuller by Ingham.  The portrait was painted for display at Mr. Fuller’s Gymnasium in New York, where he made the previously coarse sport of boxing into an activity for gentlemen. 

Fuller, born in County Norfolk, was well known there for his two round bout with the famous American ex-slave Tom Molineaux, in 1814.  William came to the US ca. 1823 and began to open a number of Gymnasiums, where he taught gentlemen the art of pugilism.  First in New York, then later in Charleston, SC and other American cities.  Fuller died in the US in 1849.

Charles Cromwell Ingham was an Irish-born portraitist working in New York from 1816/17 until his death in 1863.