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Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (British, 1817-1894)Coming In To Portsmouth
Signed “O W Brierly” in ink l.l., identified and dated “...c. 1845/...” on a
label on the frame backing.
Watercolor and ink heightened with white on paper, 13 7/8 x 23 1/8 in.
(35.3 x 58.7 cm), framed.
Condition: Toning, foxing.N.B. The Australian Dictionary of Biography includes an extensive entry
on the artist, from which these highlights are drawn. Brierly was born in
Chester, England, and died in London. Educated at the Henry Sass Art
School, Bloomsbury Street, London, he also studied naval architecture
and possibly navigation at Plymouth. Brierly was commissioned as
a war artist by the Illustrated London News during the Crimean War,
1854-55; he had commissions from the royal family, and made several
cruises with the duke of Edinburgh between 1863-69, including an
around the world trip on the Galatea (a small island in the Louisiade
Archipelago near New Guinea is named after him.) Brierly was a marine
painter to Queen Victoria and to the Royal Yacht Squadron from 1874,
and served as curator of the Painted Hall at Greenwich from 1881. He
was knighted in 1885.
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