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SIR OSWALD WALTERS BRIERLY (1817-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 563 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:OSWALD WALTERS See also:BRIERLY (1817-1894)  , See also:English marine painter, who came of an old See also:Cheshire See also:family, was See also:born at See also:Chester . He entered Sass's See also:art-school in See also:London, and after studying See also:naval See also:architecture at See also:Plymouth he exhibited some drawings of See also:ships at the Royal See also:Academy in 1839 . He had a See also:passion for the See also:sea, and in 1841 started See also:round the See also:world with See also:Benjamin See also:Boyd (1796-1851), afterwards well known as a See also:great Australian squatter, in the latter's See also:ship " Wanderer," and having got to New See also:South See also:Wales, made his See also:home at See also:Auckland-for ten years . See also:Brierly Point is called after him . He added to his sea experiences by voyages on H.M.S . " See also:Rattlesnake " in 1848, and with See also:Sir See also:Henry See also:Keppel on the " Meander " in 185o; he returned to See also:England in 1851 on this ship, and illustrated Keppel's See also:book about his cruise (1853) . He was again with Keppel during the See also:Crimean See also:War, and published in 1855 a See also:series of lithographs illustrating " The English and See also:French fleets in the Baltic." He was now taken up by See also:Queen See also:Victoria and other members of the royal family, and was attached to the suites of the See also:duke of See also:Edinburgh and the See also:prince of Wales on their See also:tours by sea, the results being seen in further marine pictures by him; and in 1874 he was made marine-painter to the queen . He exhibited at the Academy, but more largely at the Royal See also:Water-See also:colour Society, his more important See also:works including the See also:historical pictures, " The See also:Retreat of the See also:Spanish See also:Armada" (1871) and " The Loss of the Revenge " (1877) . In 1885 he was knighted, and he died on the 14th of See also:December 1894 . He was twice married and had an active and prosperous See also:life, but was no great artist; his best pictures are at See also:Melbourne and See also:Sydney .

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This reviewer has blandly judged Sir Oswald Brierly as "no great artist" without any qualifying description of any of the works involved. He/she gives no reason for the opinion which has been simply cut and pasted onto other sites. I do not agree with this critic's taste and evaluation of the works.
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