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Oswald Walters Brierly
English painter (1817–1894)
Oswald Walters Brierly | |
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Portrait of Oswald Walters Brierly, c.1880 | |
| Born | 19 May 1817 |
| Died | (1894-12-14)14 December 1894 |
| Nationality | English |
| Movement | marine painting |
| Awards | Marine-Painter to Queen Victoria. |
Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (19 May 1817 – 14 December 1894), was an Englishmarinepainter from an old Cheshire family and he was born at Chester.
Life
He was the son of Thomas Brierly, a medical 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, Pique and Gorgon, at the Royal Academy in 1839. He then spent some time in the study of navigation, and in 1841 started on a voyage to Australia with his friend Benjamin Boyd in the latter's yachtWanderer