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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.
