Newton Alonzo Wells

Newton Alonzo Wells (April 9, 1852 – January 16, 1923) was an American artist and professor of art.

[2] Newton Alonzo Wells was born on April 9, 1852, in Lisbon, New York.

[4][3][2] Wells also studied art and painting at Académie Julian in Paris under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, and William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

[2] Wells taught at Union College in Schenectady, New York from 1877 to 1879;[3] and was a professor of drawing at Syracuse University from 1879 to 1889.

[2] The DeSoto County Courthouse in Hernando, Mississippi, has murals by Wells (depicting Hernando de Soto's journey), they were painted in 1903 and were originally in the Gayoso Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.