James Durno

James Durno (c.1745–1795) was a British historical painter who spent most of his career in Rome.

Life Durno was born in around 1745, He also worked as a copyist for West, and in around 1771 assisted John Hamilton Mortimer on his ceiling paintings at Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire. arriving in Rome by June of that year. while the other illustrates the scene in the Merry Wives of Windsor in which he is disguised as the "Old Woman of Brentford". According to Edward Edwards in his Anecdotes of Painting (1808) "these works did not answer the expectations of those for whom they were painted."

Durno died of fever in Rome on 13 September 1795. The Gentleman's Magazine reported that He was buried according to the usual custom of interring Protestants in that country. All his brother artists (we mean British artists) attended; and Prince Augustus honoured his funeral by carrying a torch, as did his two gentlemen, and Lord Wycombe, Mr. Amherst, and Mr. Disney Fitch.