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.

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.

[4] When he arrived in New York, Ingham exhibited his "The death of Cleopatra" at the opening of the American Academy of Fine Arts in 1816.

Remaining in New York, he distinguished himself by his oil painting, but also in watercolor on ivory, a standard medium for miniature portraits since the 18th century.

His work in oil is marked by a high finish achieved by successive glazings,[6] showing the influence of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.