page_title: Frank W. Wood
hierarchical_section_title: Frank W. Wood
caption_attribution_description: English: Scan of a photograph of a painting by Frank W Wood 1932, in private hands.
context_page_description: Frank Watson Wood 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.
  Wood was in Bermuda in 1929 and 1931, and painted Admiralty House and Admiralty Cove, in those days the Headquarters of the America & West Indies Squadron.
  Other works include:
  Cowes
  Edinburgh from The Braids
  Linlithgow Palace
  Springtime on the River Tweed
  Mordington House
  A View of Berwick-upon-Tweed
  Topography of Berwick
  Gullane
context_section_description: 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.
  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 1 July 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)
caption: Wood's watercolour of Mordington House, 1932
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