BRIERLY, SIR OSWALD WALTERS English marine painter, was born at Chester. He exhibited some drawings of ships at the Royal Academy in 1839. In 1841 he started round the world with Benjamin Boyd (1796-1851), in the latter's ship "Wanderer," and made his home at Auckland for ten years. Brierly Point is called after him. He sailed on H.M.S. "Rattlesnake" in 1848, and with Sir Henry Keppel on the "Mean der" in 185o, he returned to England in 1851 on this ship, and illustrated Keppel's book about his cruise (1853). Brierly was attached to the suites of the duke of Edinburgh and the prince of Wales on their tours by sea and in 1874 he was made marine painter to the queen. His more important works include the his torical pictures, "The Retreat of the Spanish Armada" (1871) and "The Loss of the Revenge" (1877). In 1885 he was knighted, and he died on Dec. 14,