Augustus Joseph Nicholas Burke (28 July 1838 – 1891) was an Irish artist and an Academician of the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA).

He showed an early interest in drawing, displaying a love for depicting the people and land of Connemara.

One of the earliest Irish artists to travel to Brittany, Burke exhibited fifteen Breton scenes at the Royal Hibernian Academy between 1876 and 1878.

The 1880s brought Burke to Walberswick in Suffolk to an artist's colony created by Philip Wilson Steer.

His work is relatively rare, mainly because the contents of his studio were destroyed during the fire that engulfed the Abbey Street buildings of the RHA in 1916.