William Cuming (1769–1852) was an Irish portrait painter, a president of the Royal Hibernian Academy.

In 1793 he was commissioned by the Corporation of Dublin to paint the portrait of Alderman Henry Gore Sankey, a former Lord Mayor.

[1] In 1811 he was President of the Society of Artists in Dublin, and in 1823 he was chosen to be one of the original members of the newly founded of the Royal Hibernian Academy.

In April 1829 he was elected president of the academy, a position he held until October 1832, when he resigned and retired from his painting.

According to William Dunbar, writing in 1834, Ingham always spoke of Cuming as "an excellent artist, a liberal man, and a finished gentleman.