[1] During Ingamells tenure in York he wrote and published articles on the French painter Philippe Mercier, with Robert Raines, and on the Italian portraitist Andrea Soldi for the Walpole Society.
The Wallace Collection did not lend artworks or stage exhibitions in Ingamells initial years as director, and so Ingamell worked on improving the interiors of the museum and revising the Wallace Collection's catalogue.
[1] Ingamells joined the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art after his retirement in 1992.
The book arose out of material collected by the art historian Sir Brinsley Ford.
[1] He co-edited an edition of the letters of Joshua Reynolds with John Edgcumbe that was published in 2000.