James Burgess worked for many years in the Carrickfergus, County Antrim, area. He contributed twenty-five illustrations to Halls' Ireland, its Scenery, Character, published in 1841. He also published Illustrations of the North of Ireland, which had a guide to the Giant's Causeway. Most of his work is of Irish coastal scenes, but he also painted in England and Scotland. He had a drawing academy in Belfast. Examples of his work are held by the Linen Hall Library, the Ulster Museum, Belfast Harbour Office, and the National Library of Ireland, Dublin

Born:	c.1817
Died:	1890