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Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (1817-1894), English marine painter, who came of an old Cheshire family, was born at Chester..

Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement/Brierly, Oswald Walters

​BRIERLY, Sir OSWALD WALTERS (1817–1894), marine painter, son of Thomas Brierly, a doctor and amateur artist, who belonged to an old Cheshire family, was born at Chester on 19 May 1817.

AFTER OSWALD WALTER BRIERLEY Arrival of General Baraguay d'Hillers at Ledsund in His Imperial Majesty's Yacht La Reine Hortense.

After a general grounding in art at the academy of Henry Sass [q. v.] in Bloomsbury, he went to Plymouth to study naval architecture and rigging. He exhibited drawings of two men-of-war at Plymouth, the Pique and the Gorgon, at the Royal Academy in 1839.

He then spent some time in the study of navigation, and in 1841 started on a voyage round the world with Benjamin Boyd [q. v.] in the yacht Wanderer.

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    • Boyd, however, established himself in New South Wales, and did not continue the voyage. Brierly, too, became a colonist, and settled in Auckland. Brierly Point, on the coast of New South Wales, commemorates his connection with that colony.

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