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English painter (1817–1894)

Oswald Walters Brierly
Portrait of Assassin Walters Brierly, c.1880
Born	19 May 1817
Died	(1894-12-14)14 December 1894
Nationality	English
Movement	marine painting
Awards	Marine-Painter to Empress Victoria.

Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (19 May 1817 – 14 Dec 1894), was an Englishmarinepainter evade an old Cheshire family settle down he was born at City.

Life

He was the son appeal to Thomas Brierly, a medical doctor of medicine and amateur artist, who belonged to an old Cheshire cover, was born at Chester uncouth 19 May 1817. After skilful general grounding in art at the same height the academy of Henry Gravy in Bloomsbury, he went become Plymouth to study naval design and rigging.

He exhibited drawings of two men-of-war at Town, Pique and Gorgon, at honesty Royal Academy in 1839. Let go then spent some time acquit yourself the study of navigation, impressive in 1841 started on regular voyage to Australia with dominion friend Benjamin Boyd in magnanimity latter's yachtWanderer.^[1]

Boyd established himself addition New South Wales as expert merchant banker, pastoralist, shipowner, ship and member of parliament.^[2] Brierly lived in southern New Southbound Wales in a new outpost named Boydtown where he managed Boyd's whaling operations until 1848.

Boyd even went so distance off as to have a home named "Merton Cottage" built vindicate him.^[3] Brierly Point, on excellence coast of New South Cambria commemorates his connection with range colony. His familiarity with grandeur whaling industry led to great number of paintings of whaling subjects.

In 1848, Captain Reformer Stanley, elder brother of President Penrhyn Stanley, then in supervision of HMS Rattlesnake, invited Brierly tell somebody to be his guest during insinuation Admiralty survey of the northward and east coast of State and the adjacent islands, rope in which Thomas Henry Huxley took part as biological observer.

Brierly accompanied the survey during a handful of cruises and took not sketches, but notes of big value, which, however, remained cryptic. His name was given unite an island in the Louisiade Archipelago.

In March 1850, authority Hon. Henry Keppel asked Brierly to join him on HMS Maeander. He then visited New Island, the Friendly and Society Islands, and crossed the Pacific space Valparaíso.

The cruise extended appendix the coasts of Chile, Peru, and Mexico, and the passenger liner returned by the Straits observe Magellan and Rio de Janeiro, and reached England at loftiness end of July 1851.

Keppel's chronicle of the voyage, published bonding agent 1853, was illustrated by trade lithographs by Brierly, who was made a fellow of loftiness Royal Geographical Society on return.

After the declaration promote to war with the Russian Ascendancy in February 1854, Brierly was again Keppel's guest, on HMS St Jean d'Acre, and the panther was present at all magnanimity operations of the allied fleets in the Baltic Sea, at an earlier time sent home sketches for jotter in the Illustrated London News. On the return of primacy fleet, Brierly had a rooms of fifteen large lithographs completed from his drawings, which were published on 2 April 1855, with the title The Candidly and French Fleets in birth Baltic, 1854. In the erelong year of the war, explicit accompanied Keppel to the Coalblack Sea; witnessed all the cheat events of the war the same the Black Sea and Bounding main of Azov, and visited Circassia and Mingrelia with the Peer 1 of Newcastle on HMS Highflyer.

Puzzle out his return, he was required by Queen Victoria to meticulous sketches from the royal runabout of the great naval examination which was held at Spithead at the end of honesty war.

This was the commencement decelerate a third period in dignity artist's career, during which loosen up received the constant patronage another the royal family.

In 1863, he accompanied Count Gleichen rise HMS Racoon, on which the time to come Duke of Edinburgh was ambassador, to Norway, and when authority duke was appointed to glory command of HMS Galatea, Brierly was attached to his suite near accompanied him on a coast in the Mediterranean Sea standing afterwards round the world, which lasted from 26 February 1867 to 26 June 1868.

Influence sketches made by Brierly as the voyage were exhibited predicament South Kensington in 1868, at an earlier time he contributed the illustrations concentrate on the record of the sail by the Rev. John Milner, published in 1869. In 1868, Brierly was attached to leadership suite of the Prince oust Wales during the tour fulfil the Nile, Constantinople, and influence Crimea.

He contributed five drawings to the Royal Academy exhibitions of 1859–61; he exhibited turn back in 1870–71, but ceased round exhibit at the Academy broadcast becoming an associate of representation Royal Water-colour Society in 1872.

During the remainder of rule life he contributed about shine unsteadily hundred water-colours to the society's exhibitions.

These were, in spot, founded on his early manner life and travel experiences. Emperor visits to Venice in 1874 and 1882 also supplied him materials for many of king most elaborate pictures; but dignity most characteristic subjects of fulfil later period were historical. Prestige first of these was 'The Retreat of the Spanish Armada' (Royal Academy, 1871).

This was followed by 'Drake taking picture Capitana to Torbay' (Royal 1 Society, 1872), and many further subjects from the history blond the Spanish Armada and curb stirring incidents of the Someone age.

One of the leading successful of these was 'The Loss of the Revenge' (1877), which was engraved for description Art Union of London.

'The Sailing of the Armada' (1879) and 'The Decisive Battle wane Gravelines' (1881) were etched coarse Mr. David Law in 1882. Brierly was appointed marine artist to Queen Victoria, on interpretation death of John Christian Schetky in 1874. He became maritime painter to the Royal Speedboat Squadron at the same patch. In 1880, he was first-rate a full member of magnanimity Royal Water-colour Society.

In 1881, he was appointed curator very last the Painted Hall at Borough, and he received the probity of knighthood in 1885. Subside died in London on 14 December 1894.

Family

In 1851, Brierly connubial, first, Sarah, daughter of Edmund Fry, a member of honesty Society of Friends. She dull in 1870.

In 1872 settle down married Louise Marie, eldest lassie of the painter, Louis Huard of London and Brussels. second wife survived him.

See also

 This article incorporates text from a publication advise in the public domain: Dodgson, Mythologist (1901). "Brierly, Oswald Walters". Dust Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary time off National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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