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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2019-12-17 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000258b.htm person Brierly Oswald Walters AACR2 19 May 1817 14 December 1894 Place of Birth Chester, Cheshire, England Marine artist Oswald Brierly accompanied Owen Stanley on the survey expedition in 1848 around the Barrier Reef and New Guinea, and later joined H. Keppel in HMS "Meander" cruising in the Pacific. He again visited Australia in 1867-1868 while travelling on the HMS "Galatea".

Born Chester, England, 19 May 1817. Died London, 14 December 1894. Knighted 1885. Educated Henry Sass's art school, Bloombsbury Street, London, studied naval architecture and possibly navigation at Plymouth. Arrived Sydney on the "Wanderer", under Benjamin Boyd, 1842; manager, Boyd's pastoral and whaling business 1842-48; surveyed the Barrier Reef, the Louisiade Archipelago and part of the New Guinea coast with Own Stanley in the "Rattlesnake" 1848-50; returned to England on "Meander" 1850-51, sketching in many of the ports of call; "Brief Geographical Sketch of the Friendly Islands, with an account of the visit of H.M.S. Meander, to the Island of Tongatabu, June, 1850" printed in the "Journal of the Royal Geographic Society" 1852; commissioned as a war artist by "Illustrated London News" during the Crimean war 1854-55; several commissions for the royal family; several cruises with the duke of Edinburgh 1863-69, including around the world trip in the "Galatea" which called in at various ports in Australia; marine painter to Queen Victoria and to the Royal Yacht Squadron from 1874; curator of the Painted Hall at Greenwich from 1881. A small island in the Louisiade Archipelago is named after him.

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 'Brierly, Oswald Walters', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Brierly, Oswald Walters Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Oswald Walters Brierly - Records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales Oswald Walters Brierly - Records ZA501-49 1842 - 1894 'A listing of the diaries and journals of Oswald Brierly' c1842-94 [microfilm, ZA501-49]. 1 reel Microform Oswald Walters Brierly - Records National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection Oswald Walters Brierly - Records MS 336 1842 - 1894 Numerous engravings and 8 original paintings c1842-56 [Pict. 2485, NZ 111-H, scr.6, 6901, 2551-A, 6092, 6943, 6944]; a photograph of Brierly is included in the Pictorial Collection; a photocopy of a biographical sketch by H.S. Bloxsome [MS 336]. Artwork, Photographs