Frank W Wood

Frank Watson Wood (1862 – 1953), commenced his career as a Royal Navy officer, and was described in 1907 as "naval artist, Portsmouth". He went on to become an internationally regarded watercolorist.

The son of parents who resided in the High Street of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in August 1906 he sold King Edward VII a watercolour which he hung in the Royal Yacht. Queen Alexandra purchased at the same time a further three pictures, all associated with views taken during Cowes Regatta week. In November 1907 the Queen again purchased from him two large watercolours. [ "The Berwickshire News" November 29, 2007, "Looking Back", p.13]

Wood was in Bermuda in 1929 and 1931, and painted Admiralty House (since demolished) and Admiralty Cove, in those days the Headquarters of the America & West Indies Squadron (established July 1, 1927).

Other works include:

* Cowes
* Edinburgh from The Braids
* Linlithgow Palace
* Springtime on the River Tweed
* Mordington House (1932)
* A View of Berwick-upon-Tweed
* Topography of Berwick
* Gullane (1933)

References

The Bermuda paintings appear here:http://bermuda-online.org/forart.htm