Naval Review at Spithead. Her Majesty The Queen Reviewing the Fleet in Action

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Oswald Walters Brierly was born in Chester, the son of a physician. He studied at Sass’s Academy, Bloomsbury, before entering the Naval College, Plymouth. From 1841 to 1851 he was an artist on a voyage to Australia. In 1854 he sketched actions of the Crimea for the ‘Illustrated London News’. After his return, Queen Victoria commissioned views of the 1853 Naval Review at Spithead. From 1867, he travelled with Albert, Prince of Wales although their excursion was cut short. In 1869 he journeyed along the Nile with the Prince. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and Royal Society of Painters in Water Colour. He was appointed Marine Painter to the Queen, Painter to the Royal Yacht Squadron and was knighted in 1885. He died aged 77 in Notting Hill.
Thomas Goldsworth Dutton, draughtsman and lithographer of shipping subjects, produced engravings after his own designs as well as after those of his contemporaries. His engravings include views of warships, yachts and yachting races, P&O steam ships, clippers and naval engagements. He was based in London and worked for Day & Son. His prints were usually available with or without hand-colouring. Dutton exhibited 15 sea pieces, mainly watercolours, at the Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street between 1858 and 1879. He lived at addresses in Wandsworth and Stockwell, London.

Places

England, Portsmouth, Hampshire, Isle of Wight

Subjects

fleet, topography, seascape/coastal scene, smoke, sea, cannon, royal review, ship

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (1817 - 1894)
Thomas Goldsworth Dutton (c.1819 - 1891)

Title

Naval Review at Spithead. Her Majesty The Queen Reviewing the Fleet in Action

Date

published 1 November 1853

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, January 1976

GAC number

12115