John Eyre (c. 1771– ), a pardoned convict, was an early Australian painter and engraver.

Aged 13 years in 1794, he was apprenticed to his father, a wool-comber and weaver, and became a Coventry freeman in August 1792.

[2] Granted a conditional pardon on 4 June 1804, Eyre's early drawings are dated from around this time.

[2] He generally focused on urban landscapes, giving his creative output value as both works of art and historical records.

[3] This progression is typical of the developmental pattern of landscape depiction in the early colonial period.