James Earl, an American portrait painter, was a brother of Ralph Earl. He was born in Leicester, Massachusetts on May 1, 1761, and died of yellow fever at Charleston on August 18, 1796 at the age of 35.
This article incorporates text from the article "EARLE, James" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.