Owen Stanley
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Captain Owen Stanley FRS was a British Royal Navy officer and surveyor.
Captain Owen Stanley RN in 1837
HMS Pelorus at low water, Port Essington, Northern Territory, 1840 painting by Owen Stanley
The grave of Owen Stanley, RN, Cammeray, Sydney, 1850, by Edward Wolfe Brooker
Oswald Walters Brierly
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Sir Oswald Walters Brierly, was an English marine painter from an old Cheshire family and he was born at Chester.
Owen Stanley
…of 33. In December 1846 Stanley sailed from Portsmouth in charge of HMS Rattlesnake, with the naturalists Thomas Huxley, John MacGillivray and artist Oswald Walters Brierly on board, accompanied by Charles Bampfield Yule in HMS Bramble. In November 1847 he arrived at Port Curtis on the Australian coast, and after surveying…
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.