James Stewart (2 November 1791 – 5 February 1863) was a Scottish engraver and painter.
He was articled to Robert Scott the engraver, and had as his helpful fellow pupil John Burnet.
In 1833 he was induced by financial troubles to emigrate to Cape Colony; there he settled as a farmer, but within a year lost everything through the outbreak of the Sixth Xhosa War.
Stewart's first independent plate was from Sir William Allan's Tartar Robbers dividing the Spoil,’ which was followed by Circassian Captives (1820); The Murder of Archbishop Sharpe, (1824); and Queen Mary signing her Abdication, all from paintings by Allan.
for The Amulet annual for 1831 with illustrative verse by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.