# Oswald Brierly artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:52:30.896Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1817-05-19
- Death date: 1894-12-14
- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting, Drawing

## Portrait

![Oswald Brierly](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Oswald_Walter_Brierly_c.1880.jpg)
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oswald_Walter_Brierly_c.1880.jpg

## About Oswald Brierly

Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (1817–1894) was a British artist best identified with marine painting and drawing. Born in Chester, he developed a public identity around close observation of ships, coastlines, and life at sea. Reference sources describe him as an English marine painter and draftsman, while accounts of his work connect his imagery with voyages and maritime settings in Australia, the Baltic, the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, New Guinea, and the Nile. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter Brierly through nautical subjects rather than through a named modern art movement. Paintings and drawings may be considered both as works of art and as visual records of nineteenth-century seafaring. Because authority files record his name in several forms, including Oswald Walters Brierly and Sir Oswald Walters Brierly, careful entity matching is important when reviewing signatures, catalogue descriptions, collection records, and auction results.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter Brierly’s marine paintings and drawings, particularly depictions of ships, coastlines, voyages, and other nautical settings. The available sources support painting and draftsmanship as his principal work types but do not establish a reliable catalogue of editions, print series, or other recurring formats. Medium, support, dimensions, inscriptions, and attribution should therefore be recorded directly from each object.

## Market and appraisal context

Brierly’s market context is centered on marine paintings and drawings. An appraisal should first establish the object’s medium, dimensions, subject, date or period, condition, provenance, and strength of attribution. A clearly described ship, voyage, or geographic setting may also affect which auction results offer meaningful comparisons. Public records should be filtered for works of similar type and scale rather than combined into a single artist-wide price expectation. The collected source pack confirms an auction-record presence but does not provide detailed major-auction-house results, so it cannot support a price trend or prediction. Any valuation should rely on verified comparable lots, their sale dates and realized prices, and the individual object’s physical and documentary evidence.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3357515
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500003584
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/56883995/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Walters_Brierly
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Walters_Brierly
- Wikipedia: https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Walters_Brierly
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/oswald-brierly/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oswald_Walter_Brierly_c.1880.jpg