A watercolour and bodycolour drawing of HMS Euryalus on a calm sea, with three small longboats at the bow, midships and stern respectively. An unidentified coast can be seen in the background, and the uniforms of the crew hanging out to dry are visible. Signed and dated "O.W. Brierly 1860". 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. On 1 January 1860 Prince Alfred sailed in the Euryalus from Malta for Syracuse, Palermo, Elba and Gibralter, returning to Spithead in February, That summer he joined the ship on a voyage to Rio, the Cape of Good Hope, Natal and the West Indies. 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’.