The British Presence in Rio de Janeiro uring the 19th Century - Key Words: Navy, Daily Life, Urbanism, Traveler´s books

1. SYLVIA
EWEL
LENZ
U.E.LONDRINA
UERJ POS-DOC
SEPT 2009
THE BRITISH COMMUNITY IN RIO

2. In memory to Elly Clara Ewel Lenz
Cultura Inglesa Director Ilha 1959

3.  British trade with Colonial Brazil
 Rio port – to stop in the way to Australia
 British Navy and Lord Cochrane
 Tradesmen community + their associations
 GB Diplomatic Mission
 Painters and their view of Rio
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 Traveller´s narratives
Some topics and images

4.  Mapa império GB...
Rio between BG, India and
Australia

5.  LANCASTER – 1591-1603 - BRAZIL
 LINDLEY – 1802-1803 – BAHIA - arrested
 MATHINSON – 1821-1822 – RIO and
S.America
 SOUTHEY – 1st History about Brazil but
was never here!
COLONIAL BRAZIL – FIRST
NARRATIVES

6. 1800 – Nicholas Pocock –
smuggling in the way to Asia

7.  MAWE – mineralist and João VI administrator at Sta. Cruz
 LUCOCK – tradesman - costumes, work - 1808-1818
 HENDERSON – travellers and British diplomat - 1822
 ARMITAGE– also istorian – Irish immigrants – 1808 – 1830
 MARIA – Alte Graham´s Wife – widowed in Rio x Brits ...
 HAMMOND – Capitain at Stuart´s ship
 WALSH - the Anglican Priest - slaves, country 1828
 GARDNER: British friends in Rio - 1836-1840
 EWBANK a tecnical Brit from USA - 1845
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 BRIERLY – diaries on the way to Australia 1842-1862

8. CHAMBERLAIN – views and costumes in colonial Rio 1820
EARLE –Maria Grahamas acquaintance 1821
LANDSEER - British Diplomatic Mission - 1825-1827
ESSEX VIDAL – Alte. Hammond´s painter – several times
BATE – tradesman – whatercolours – 1808-1848
BURCHELL - Botanical – SP, Goiás and Para 1826
OUSELEY - Charge of Affairs and painter 1833-41
HALL – tradesman and artist 1848-1854 English
Painters Society member
BRIGGS – Lytographer Brazilian Souvenir 1849

9. BATE, Richard – colonial House
and their wooden windows

10. BATE – Ilha das Cobras
São Bento at the back

11.  Santa Cruz Farm – administrator for D.João VI
 Slaves work and life conditions at Sta Cruz
 Bad horses and plantations bewilded
 Minas Gerais minings and his observartions
 Precious Stones shop at London made them
famous in England and Europe
MAWE -1807-1811 mineralogist

12. BATE – Praia do Flamengo/Catete
– “far” from the dirty city + port

13. BATE -English Cemetery at
Gamboa – 1810

14.  Daily life and their people
 Work and professions
 Ignorance about religion in England
 Ponta do Caju – a clean beach ...
 British Navy Hospital at Ilha das Enxadas
 Gamboa and the English Cemetery open for
all non-Roman Catholic people
 British “Lunatic” Society – meetings during
the full Moon
LUCOCK – Tradesman - 1808-1818

15. HENDERSON MAP 1821

16. Henry Chamberlain – British
Consul in Rio (1815-20)

17. H. Chamberlain / Guillobel –
“Views and Costumes in Rio“ –

18. Chamberlain/Guillobel – slavered
Africans (1818-1820)

19.  The English Chapel – 1821
 For Brits and non-catholic Christians
 For the German mercenaries...
 Prussian Consul Theremin´s daughter
baptised there
 Evangelical Church (Lutheran and
Calvinist) founded in 1837
ENGLISH CHAPEL at Barbonos

20. HANDEL´S book about Germania

21.  LEISURE single men - Germania Society –1821 –

 1st Civil Association in Brazil founded by
tradesmen, mainly Germans+ Brits with a
professional identification to have:

 Restaurant “Casa de Pasto”
 Library with several newspaper from abroad and
books in Germany
 Snooker and leisure room
 Parties and dances
 Now in Gavea (Praia do Flamengo = UNE)
Gesellschaft GERMANIA

22. Chamberlain - Tijuca Falls - 1822

23. H.CHAMBERLAIN – Tijuca - 1822

24.  Brazil State – Rio de Janeiro capital
 Grão Pará and Belém State – Lisbon
 Cochrane – From Chile to Rio - The “Brazilian”
Marine Founder
 Taylor – Against Portugueese Navy naturalized
and married with a Brazilian Woman
 Greenfell and the Pará rebellion – “Brazilian
consul ini Liverpool
British Navy– Brazil post 1823

25. Cochrane Memorial in Salvador

26. GRENFELL – Brazilian Consul at
Liverpool

27.  1821 - Captain´s Wife on route to Chile stop
in Rio
 Acquaintance with Cochrane in Chile
 1823 - Back to Rio, widowed and the pledge
to Pedro I
 House at Catete and Botafogo
 British community and parties
 Contact to Imperatriz Leopoldina
 House at Rio Center and National Library
 Return to London
 1824 - Maria da Gloria tutor and court
gossiping
Maria Graham - 1821 – 1823,
1824

28. Maria Graham

29. M. Graham / A. Earle– view to
Corcovado

30. A. EARLE – Games during Carnival
-1822

31. M. Graham – view to Gloria Beach