Lionel Walden
American, 1861 - 1933

Bathers

Signed and dated Lionel Walden 1895
Oil on canvas
10¾ x 14½ inches (27.3 x 36.8 cm.)
Framed: 21 x 25 inches (54 x 64 cm.)

Born in Connecticut in 1861, Lionel Walden moved to Hawaii in 1911 and remained there for most of his life. He traveled to Paris frequently and exhibited at the Salon, earning several medals including an award at the Universal Exhibition in 1900. Walden died in an accident in Chantilly in 1933.

The present work, exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, clearly shows the influence of his teachers Carolus-Duran and Gérôme in the rendering of the figures. The landscape however is freer in technique and would lead to his more impressionistic later views of Hawaii and elsewhere.

Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1897, No. 990

Literature
Christopher Wood, Dictionary of British Art: Victorian Painters, Suffolk, 1995, p. 546

$28,500