| Francis Marion Wells was born in Pennsylvania in 1848. Wells arrived in San Francisco about 1870 and was a cofounder of the Bohemian Club in 1872. He was Douglas Tilden's first teacher in 1883 and the following year was commissioned to do a bust of Hawaii's King David Kalakua who was visiting in
Oakland. Wells was active in the local art scene as a teacher as well as a producer of portrait busts and bas reliefs. At one time a wealthy man, his loan of a large sum of money to President Carl (showing 500 of 903 characters). |
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