Oswald Brierly
| Oswald Walters Brierly | |
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| Born | 1817 |
| Died | 14 December 1894 |
| Nationality | English |
| Movement | marine painting |
| Awards | Marine-Painter to Queen Victoria. |
Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (1817 - 14 December 1894), English marine painter, who came of an old Cheshire family, was born at Chester.
He was the son of Thomas Brierly, a doctor and amateur artist, who belonged to an old Cheshire family, was born at Chester on 19 May 1817. After a general grounding in art at the academy of Henry Sass in Bloomsbury, he went to Plymouth to study naval architecture and rigging. He exhibited drawings of two men-of-war at Plymouth, the Pique and the Gorgon, at the Royal Academy in 1839. He then spent some time in the study of navigation, and in 1841 started on a voyage round the world with Benjamin Boyd, in the yacht Wanderer.
Boyd, however, established himself in New South Wales, and did not continue the voyage. Brierly settled in what would later become Boydtown, where he managed Boyd's whaling operations until 1848. Boyd even went so far as to have a house named “Merton Cottage” built for him. Brierly Point, on the coast of New South Wales commemorates his connection with that colony.
In 1848, Captain Owen Stanley, elder brother of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, then in command of her Majesty's ship HMS Rattlesnake, invited Brierly to be his guest during an admiralty survey of the north and east coast of Australia and the adjacent islands, in which Thomas Henry Huxley took part as biological observer. Brierly accompanied the survey during two cruises and took not only sketches, but notes of considerable value, which, however, remained unpublished. His name was given to an island in the Louisiade archipelago. In March 1850, the Hon. Henry Keppel asked Brierly to join him on the HMS Meander. He then visited New Zealand, the Friendly and Society Islands, and crossed the Pacific to Valparaiso. The cruise extended to the coasts of Chile, Peru, and Mexico, and the ship returned by the Straits of Magellan and Rio de Janeiro, and reached England at the end of July 1851.
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