THE BRITISH COMMUNITY IN RIO

SYLVIA

EWEL

LENZ

U.E.LONDRINA

UERJ POS-DOC

SEPT 2009

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

Some topics and images

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 Traveller´s narratives

Rio between BG, India and Australia

Mapa império GB...

COLONIAL BRAZIL – FIRST NARRATIVES

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!

1800 – Nicholas Pocock – smuggling in the way to Asia

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 BRIERLY – diaries on the way to Australia 1842-1862

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 1826OUSELEY - Charge of Affairs and painter 1833-41

HALL – tradesman and artist 1848-1854 English Painters Society member

BRIGGS – Lytographer Brazilian Souvenir 1849

BATE, Richard – colonial House and their wooden windows

BATE – Ilha das Cobras São Bento at the back

MAWE -1807-1811 mineralogist

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

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

BATE -English Cemetery at Gamboa – 1810

LUCOCK – Tradesman - 1808-1818

Daily life and their people Work and professionsIgnorance about religion in EnglandPonta do Caju – a clean beach ...British Navy Hospital at Ilha das EnxadasGamboa and the English Cemetery open for

all non-Roman Catholic people British “Lunatic” Society – meetings during

the full Moon

HENDERSON MAP 1821

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

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

Chamberlain/Guillobel – slavered Africans (1818-1820)

ENGLISH CHAPEL at Barbonos

The English Chapel – 1821

For Brits and non-catholic ChristiansFor the German mercenaries...Prussian Consul Theremin´s daughter

baptised thereEvangelical Church (Lutheran and

Calvinist) founded in 1837

HANDEL´S book about Germania

Gesellschaft GERMANIA

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 GermanySnooker and leisure room Parties and dances Now in Gavea (Praia do Flamengo = UNE)

Chamberlain - Tijuca Falls - 1822

H.CHAMBERLAIN – Tijuca - 1822

British Navy– Brazil post 1823

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

Cochrane Memorial in Salvador

GRENFELL – Brazilian Consul at Liverpool

Maria Graham - 1821 – 1823, 1824

1821 - Captain´s Wife on route to Chile stop in Rio

Acquaintance with Cochrane in Chile1823 - Back to Rio, widowed and the pledge to

Pedro I House at Catete and Botafogo British community and partiesContact to Imperatriz LeopoldinaHouse at Rio Center and National Library Return to London1824 - Maria da Gloria tutor and court gossiping

Maria Graham

M. Graham / A. Earle– view to Corcovado

A. EARLE – Games during Carnival -1822

M. Graham – view to Gloria Beach