Sir Oswald Walters Brierly, was an English marine painter from an old Cheshire family and he was born at Chester.
Portrait of Oswald Walters Brierly, c.1880
HMS Rattlesnake off Sydney Heads by Oswald Brierly c. 1849
HMS Maeander, painted c. 1851.
HMS Rattlesnake, painted 1853.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Keppel, was a Royal Navy officer. His first command was largely spent off the coast of Spain, which was then in the midst of the First Carlist War. As commanding officer
Oswald Walters Brierly
…notes of considerable value, which, however, remained unpublished. His name was given to an island in the Louisiade Archipelago. In March 1850, the Hon. Henry Keppel asked Brierly to join him on HMS Maeander. He then visited New Zealand, the Friendly and Society Islands, and crossed the Pacific to Valparaíso. The…
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Keppel
The advance of the British boats under Keppel's command during the Battle of Fatshan Creek by Oswald Walters Brierly
The second-rate HMS Rodney taking part, under Keppel's command, in the bombardment of Sebastopol; the ship later became Keppel's flagship on the China Station
As depicted by James Tissot in Vanity Fair, 22 April 1876