John Byrne (artist, died 1847)

John Byrne (1786–1847) was an English painter and engraver.

He was the only son of engraver William Byrne and followed his father's profession in the arts. After his father's death, in 1805, he moved to 54 John Street, London. He provided sets of engravings for Charles Wild's works on cathedrals.

Byrne around 1818 was drawing-master at Eton College. He subsequently concentrated on landscape painting in watercolours; his sister Mary and her son were also painters.

His work is included in Cadell and Davies' Britannia depicta. He sent pictures to the exhibitions of the Water-Colour Society and the Royal Academy; and spent some years (about 1832-37) in Italy. He died in 1847. In the Victoria and Albert Museum are:

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Byrne, John". In Graves, Robert Edmund. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 206. 

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