Edward Bailey (1814–1903) was the most accomplished of the Hawaiian missionary period artists in Hawaii. Along with his wife Caroline Hubbard, Bailey arrived in Hawaii as a missionary-teacher in 1837 on the ship '' Mary Frazier''. He worked at the Wailuku Female Seminary in

Maui The island of Maui (; Hawaiian: ) is the second-largest of the islands of the state of Hawaii at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km2) and is the 17th largest island in the United States. Maui is the largest of Maui County's four islands, which ...

from 1840 until its closure in 1849. After the seminary closed, he helped build the still standing

Ka'ahumanu Church Kaahumanu Church is a Church in Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii. Upon visiting a religious service in Wailuku in 1832 by Jonathan Smith Green, Queen Ka'ahumanu requested that a more permanent church structure be named for her, but her request was not ho ...

Wailuku Wailuku is a census-designated place (CDP) in and county seat of Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 17,697 at the 2020 census. Wailuku is located just west of Kahului, at the mouth of the Iao Valley. In the early 20th centur ...

and operated a small

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plantation A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...

that eventually became part of the Wailuku Sugar Company. Bailey's early works were sketches and drawings which were engraved by students at the Lahainaluna Seminary between 1833 and 1843. He began painting about 1865, at the age of 51, without any formal instruction. Bailey's best known paintings are landscapes depicting the natural beauty of central

. The

Bailey House Museum Hale Hōʻikeʻike at the Bailey House (House of Display at Old Bailey House, formerly and commonly the Bailey House Museum) is a museum of Hawaiian history and art located in Wailuku, on the island of Maui, in Hawaii. It is owned and operated b ...

(Wailuku, Hawaii) and the

Lyman House Memorial Museum The Lyman House Memorial Museum, also known as the Lyman Museum and Lyman House, is a Hilo, Hawaii-based natural history museum founded in 1931 in the Lyman family mission house, originally built in 1838. The main collections were moved to an ad ...

(Hilo, Hawaii) are among the public collections holding works by Edward Bailey.Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog
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References

* Forbes, David W., ''Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941'', Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, pp. 86–7, 95, 160-1. *, p. 56 * Severson, Don R., ''Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections'', University of Hawaii Press, 2002, pp. 74–5, 138.

External links

The Bailey House Museum

Edward Bailey in AskArt.com

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bailey, Edward 1814 births 1903 deaths People from Hawaii Painters from Hawaii People from Holden, Massachusetts 19th-century American painters American male painters People from Wailuku, Hawaii Congregationalist missionaries in Hawaii 19th-century American male artists