Albert George Hanson letters received from Sir Oswald Brierly, 1886-1888

MLMSS 7509

fonds

1886-1888

442802

0.02 metres of textual material (1 folder)

Oswald Walters Brierly was born in Chester, England in 1817and arrived in Sydney in 1842 on the yacht Wanderer under Ben Boyd. He managed Boyd's whaling business at Twofold Bay until 1848 when he joined Captain Owen Stanley on HMS Rattlesnake to chart the Great Barrier Reef, the southern coast of New Guinea and the Louisiade Archipelago. In 1850 he returned to England across the Pacific on HMS Meander. After serving as a war artist during the Crimean War he visited Australia again in 1868 during the Duke of Edinburgh's world cruise on HMS Galatea. Highly regarded in his lifetime as a marine artist and ethnographic draughtsman he was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1885. He died in 1894.
Albert George Hanson was a medical practitioner and friend of Oswald Brierly. He migrated to Australia in 188? on the Parramatta. His son, Albert John Hanson was a well-known artist.

Six letters (photocopies) dating from 14 February 1886 to 8 October 1888 with typed transcripts by a member of the Hanson family. The letters contain references to paintings that Brierly is working on, a proposed painting of the ship 'Parramatta' off Sydney Heads, exhibitions, Mr R. Carter, Albert John Hanson, Brierly's health, Oswald Bloxsome and his house 'The Rangers' and the mural Brierly painted there, and Mr Lucas.