John Fleming (painter)

John Fleming (1792-1845) was a Scottish landscape painter who lived and worked in Greenock.

He is thought to have had some contact with the portrait painter James Saxon before spending some time in London, where he worked as a housepainter and took the opportunity to the study paintings in galleries there.

[1] As a landscapist, Fleming specialised in small paintings of Scottish scenery, which became widely known through a series of collaborations with the Glasgow engraver and publisher Joseph Swan.

[1] The last of these, consisting of a total of 48 plates, issued in 16 parts, proved popular enough to justify the publication of further editions in 1836 and 1839.

[2] Fleming also worked as a portrait painter and is listed as such in his first appearance in a local Greenock directory of 1831–2.