Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bromley, James

by Louis Alexander Fagan

BROMLEY, JAMES (1800–1838), mezzotint-engraver, was the third son of William Bromley, A.R.A. [q. v.], the line-engraver. Little is known respecting his life. Among his best plates may be enumerated portraits of the Duchess of Kent, after Hayter; John, earl Russell, after Hayter; and the Earl of Carlisle, when Lord Morpeth, after Carrick; 'Falstaff,' after Liversege; 'La Zingarella,' after Oakley, &c. He exhibited twelve of his works at the Suffolk Street Gallery between 1829 and 1833. He died on 12 Dec. 1838.

[Redgrave's Dictionary of Artists of the English School, London, 1878, 8vo.]

L. F.