Sir James Dromgole Linton (1840–1916) was an English painter in oil and watercolour, and a lithographer.

[1] Linton was born in London on 26 December 1840 and attended Leigh's School of Art.

Charles T. Jacoby, brother of Sir James Alfred Jacoby, commissioned a series of five oil paintings illustrating the "History of a Soldier of the Sixteenth Century" entitled The Declaration of War, The Benediction, The Surrender, Victorious, and The Banquet.

[4] Linton was elected an associate in 1867 and a member in 1870 of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours.

[5][6] He died at his home in Hampstead, London on 3 October 1916 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.