Edward Bailey (1814–1903) was the most adept of the Hawaiian missionary grow old artists in Hawaii. Along in the same way as his wife Caroline Hubbard, Bailey arrived in Hawaii as a missionary-teacher in 1837 upon the ship Mary Frazier. He worked at the Wailuku Female Seminary in Maui from 1840 until its suspension in 1849. After the seminary closed, he helped build the still standing Ka’ahumanu Church in Wailuku and operated a small sugarcane plantation that eventually became share of the Wailuku Sugar Company. Bailey’s early works were sketches and drawings which were engraved by students at the Lahainaluna Seminary amongst 1833 and 1843. He began painting just about 1865, at the age of 51, without any formal instruction.
Bailey’s best known paintings are landscapes depicting the natural beauty of central Maui. The Bailey House Museum (Wailuku, Hawaii) and the Lyman House Memorial Museum (Hilo, Hawaii) are among the public collections holding works by Edward Bailey.
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