Algernon Cecil Newton RA (23 February 1880 – 21 May 1968) was an English landscape artist known as the "Canaletto of the canals".

[2] Early in World War I, Newton held the rank of Sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

[3] Later, he served with the Army and was invalided out in 1916 after catching pneumonia, recuperating over the next few years among the artist community at Lamorna, Cornwall.

He could take the most forbidding canal or group of factory buildings and, without romanticizing or shrinking any detail, create a poetic and restful composition out of it."

[11][12] Newton married Marjorie Emilia Balfour Rider, author of Mr Duveen: An Allegory.