A pencil and watercolour drawing of HMS Euryalus, with the 'Victoria and Albert' and other yachts seen in the distance on the left and escort ships on the right. Signed and dated "Oswald W. Brierly / 1858". Prince Alfred, the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, was appointed to HMS Euryalus after passing his naval entrance exams. The Euryalus was a 50-gun screw frigate which had been launched in 1853, and the Prince served on it for two years between 1858 and 1860 as a naval cadet and midshipman. Brierly worked for three members of the Royal family through his long career as a marine painter, and after his death his daughter recorded that the interest Queen Victoria had always taken in his work had been ‘one of the happiest memories that remained with him and cheered him to the very last’.