James Bourne (artist)

James Bourne, (Dalby, Lincolnshire 1773 - Sutton Coldfield 1854)[1] was a water-colour landscape painter, working in London in the early part of the nineteenth century[2] who later became a Methodist minister.

[1] His daughter was Edmunda Bourne, mother of Margaret Jane Benson.

[2] They include a view of Dalby Hall, in Lincolnshire, which was owned by his brother.

[5] An engraving of the hall after a drawing by Bourne was published in the Copper-plate Magazine in 1801.

[6] A selection of Bourne's letters, with a memoir, was published in 1861, under the title Letters by the late James Bourne: (in his latter years minister of the gospel at Sutton Coldfield); with Outlines of his Life written by himself, and an Account of his Death[7]