James Bourne

James Bourne, (Dalby, Lincolnshire 1773 – Sutton Coldfield 1854) was a watercolour landscape painter, working in London in the early part of the nineteenth century who later became a Methodist minister.

In 1848 he gave up art for the Methodist ministry. He died in Sutton Coldfield in 1854, survived by his widow and seven of his eight children.

Several of Bourne's watercolours are in the Victoria and Albert Museum. They include a view of Dalby Hall, in Lincolnshire, which was owned by his brother. An engraving of the hall after a drawing by Bourne was published in the Copper-plate Magazine in 1801.

A selection of Bourne's letters, with a memoir, was published in 1861, under the title Letters by the late James Bourne: (in his latter years minister of the gospel at Sutton Coldfield); with Outlines of his Life written by himself, and an Account of his Death