James Brenan (1837 – 7 August 1907) was an Irish artist.
Brenan was in the midst of the most popular painters of nineteenth-century Ireland. He travelled to London where he studied decorative arts under Ownen Jones and Matthew Digby Wyatt. He became headmaster of the Cork School of Art in 1860 and began involved with the Royal Hibernian Academy a year later. Brenan was appointed headmaster of the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1889. Among those he taught were Henry Jones Thaddeus and William Orpen. Brenan furthermore introduced design classes to build and relieve the lace-making industry and additional crafts.
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