James Bromley was an English mezzotint-engraver.

Bromley was the third son of William Bromley

William Bromley (artist)

William Bromley was born at Carisbrooke, in the Isle of Wight, in 1769, and was apprenticed to an engraver named Wooding in London, and soon attracted favourable notice...

, the line-engraver. Little is known respecting his life. Among his best plates may be enumerated portraits of the Duchess of Kent

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was the mother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.-Early life:...

, after George Hayter

George Hayter

Sir George Hayter was a notable English painter, specialising in portraits and large works involving in some cases several hundred individual portraits...

; John, Earl Russell

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC , known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was an English Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century....

, after Hayter; and the Earl of Carlisle, when Lord Morpeth, after Thomas Heathfield Carrick

Thomas Heathfield Carrick

Thomas Heathfield Carrick was an English portrait miniature painter who portrayed many leading political and literary figures of his age. He developed the method of painting portraits on marble rather than the usual ivory.-Life and work:...

; 'Falstaff,' after Henry Liverseege

Henry Liverseege

Henry Liverseege was an English genre painter of literary and folklore subjects.-Early years:Henry Liverseege was born in Manchester, the son of Edmund Liverseege, a joiner. He was a weakly child who suffered from asthma and following his death in 1832 it was discovered that one of his lungs had...

; and 'La Zingarella,' after Octavius Oakley

Octavius Oakley

Octavius Oakley RWS , was an English watercolour portrait, figure and landscape artist.Oakley worked for a Leeds textile company. He developed into a specialist of portraits in watercolour and was given commissions by the Duke of Devonshire...

. He exhibited twelve of his works at the Suffolk Street Gallery between 1829 and 1833. He died on 12 December 1838.

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