Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Walden, Lionel May 22, 1861 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

LIONEL WALDEN, Artist. An internationally famous artist, noted for his unusual 
marines, who has chosen to make Hawaii his home and is now one of the leading 
spirits in the fostering of the arts within the Territory is Lionel Walden, a 
former resident of Paris.
  Beginning as a student of the great Carolus Duran, Mr. Walden won his first 
honorable mention in Versailles in 1888, and since that time he has been the 
winner of innumerable prizes in art exhibits both in America and upon the 
continent, and is now a member of the leading art societies of the world and a 
Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France.
  He first exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1877, and he has since exhibited in 
1888 “Sur la Tamise”; in 1890, “Bateaux de Peche”; in 1896, “The Docks of 
Cardiff,” which the French government thought so remarkable that it was 
purchased for the Luxembourg Museum; in 1897, “Promenade en Mer”; in 
1899, “Peche en Rade” and “Fin de Belle Journee,” which received honorable 
mention. In the Salon of 1923, Mr. Walden exhibited a beautiful Hawaiian 
canvas, entitled “Sea Breaking Over the Reef,” which was the second picture 
purchased by the French government for the Luxembourg.
  Mr. Walden has painted mainly marine scenes and nudes, and he has been 
characterized by the leading critics of Europe as one of the foremost living 
marine artists. Among the medals and awards he has won are the first, second 
and third prizes at the American Art Association in Paris, silver medal in the 
Crystal Palace in London in 1894, honorable mention in the Paris Salon of 
1899, the silver medal of the Paris exposition in 1900, third class medal of 
the 1903 Paris Salon, silver and Commemorative medal of the St. Louis 
Exposition in 1904, silver medal from the San Francisco Exposition in 1915 and 
numerous others.
  Meeting the Honolulu artist, James Wilder, in Paris in 1911, Mr. Walden 
became interested in Hawaii, and came here on his first visit. He immediately 
became enamored of Hawaiian landscapes and the possibilities for art work in 
the islands, and since that time he has painted many fine canvasses depicting 
scenes in Hawaii, two of which are now on exhibit in the Cooke Art Gallery in 
Punahou, together with a fine marine painted at Capri, Italy.
  Realizing the need for the stimulation of art in the Territory, Mr. Walden 
has joined with other local artists and art lovers in the encouragement of the 
arts. One of his notable contributions to Honolulu is his 
decoration, “Glorification of the Drama,” in the Hawaii Theater.
  Born in Norwich, Conn., on May 22, 1861, Mr. Walden is the son of the Rev. 
Treadwell Walden and Elizabeth (Law) Walden. His father was a notable 
clergyman and author, a direct descendant of Sir Lionel Waldon of Huntington, 
in Huntingtonshire, Kent, England, an officer under Charles I, and heir of his 
father, an English baronet. The family records trace the Waldens from 1493 to 
the Lionel Walden who came to America and settled in Portsmouth in 1600. 
Another early American ancestor was Richard Walden, a famous man in the early 
history of Massachusetts Bay in the seventeenth century. The English estates 
of the Walden family are now included in the broad domain of the famous 
Shrewsbury family, with whom the Waldens are closely allied by blood. On the 
maternal side the subject of this sketch is a descendant of the Earl of 
Chatham, William Pitt, Benjamin Lee and William H. Law.
  Mr. Walden was a member of the advisory committee and jury for paintings 
from France to the St. Louis Exposition, he is a member of the Societe 
International de Peinture et Sculpture of Paris, Paris Society of American 
Painters and National Institute of Arts and Letters.


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