John Francis Murphy (December 11, 1853 – January 30, 1921) was an American Irish landscape painter.

[1] John Francis Murphy was born at Oswego, New York on December 11, 1853.

His father, Martin Francis Murphy (1822-1899) had immigrated from Waterford to Oswego where he married Hannah Gregory (1839-1899).

After being dismissed from his job, Murphy moved to New York City where he taught himself painting, in 1875.

[6] At first influenced by Wyant and Inness, after 1900 he attacked the modern problems of light and air, thus combining the old and new theories of landscape painting.