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Arts feature

Chris Ingram: from messenger boy to museum benefactor

<em>Andrew Lambirth</em> meets Chris Ingram, the collector behind a much-lauded museum in Woking

28 September 2013

9:00 AM

28 September 2013

9:00 AM

Chris Ingram is a silver-haired, incisive man, with an air of quiet authority and decided opinions about the art he so passionately collects. A media entrepreneur who started work at 16 as a messenger boy in an advertising agency, Ingram has the strength of his convictions. Over the past dozen years he has built up a remarkable collection of some 500 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures, of which 350 belong in the category described by auctioneers as Modern British.

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