John Bunyan Bristol (1826–1909) was an American landscape painter born in Hillsdale, New York.
He abandoned these genres in order to devote his skillful hand to landscape painting.
He painted from his home in Massachusetts and created highly detailed images which typically combined water and land views.
He traveled to Florida in 1859 and produced several tropical pictures which attracted attention to his work.
In the 1880s he began to exhibit oil paintings of the northern Adirondacks around Whiteface Mountain and Lake Placid.