Background
James Andrews was the younger son of Joseph Andrews of Shaw House, near Newbury in Berkshire, and his second wife Elzabeth Pettit. Sir Joseph Andrews, 1st Baronet (1727–1800) was his elder brother.
James Andrews was the younger son of Joseph Andrews of Shaw House, near Newbury in Berkshire, and his second wife Elzabeth Pettit. Sir Joseph Andrews, 1st Baronet (1727–1800) was his elder brother.
James Andrews was educated privately, and having taken to the law was one of the magistrates at the police court in Queen Square, Westminster, from 1792 to his death.
James Andrews taught flower-painting to young ladies.He created the illustrations for the famous nature writer Sarah Bowdich Lee's 1854 book Trees, Plants, and Flowers: Their Beauties, Uses, and Influences. March 1857 awarded a medal by the Royal Society of Agriculture and Botany in Ghent, a painting of fruit and a bowl in watercolour.