Ipswich Art Society is an exhibiting organisation for painters, sculptors and printmakers, based in Ipswich, Suffolk.
It was founded as the Ipswich Fine Art Club in 1874.
Alderman Edward Packard was the main force behind it, with support from Rev Henry Cruso, of Bramford.
[3] In 1875 It began organising an annual exhibition, with pictures loaned from museums in South Kensington and elsewhere.
Although to start off with the profits were given to charities, from 1878 any money raised was put towards building their own permanent gallery.