James Baker Pyne (5 December 1800 – 29 July 1870) was an English landscape painter who became a successful follower of Turner,[1] after having been in his earlier years a member of the Bristol School of artists and a follower of Francis Danby.

[3] His style and subject matter, namely the atmospheric depiction of local landscapes and imaginary scenes, were those of Danby and the Bristol School, among whom he was one of the most able oil painters.

[6] Turner's influence can be seen for example in Clifton, Near Bristol, from the Avon (1837), which was exhibited at the Royal Academy.

[7] The art dealership Thomas Agnew and Sons commissioned him to paint in the Lake District in 1848, and then in 1851 to make a three year tour of Italy,[8] in which he was accompanied by the Bristol watercolourist William Evans.

[3] Besides Müller, his pupils included George Arthur Fripp and James Astbury Hammersley.