watch and paint some of the most well known and majestic ships in the British fleet at that time for example HMS Hood, HMS Barham and HMS Royal Oak. World War Two During World War Two, Wood created also paintings to commemorate some of the major events of the war that had a naval component for example The Epic of Dunkirk and The Battle of The River Plate. Legacy and death Frank Wood was a talented painter of British Royal Navy warships and landscapes. With the resurgence of interest in naval pictures in the 1990s, his paintings became and still are highly sought after at auction. His attention to detail and ability to capture the spirit of a ship at sea of in port make his paintings unique - this was no doubt partly due to his own naval service. His final years were spent in Perthshire and he died at Dochfour, Strathyre in 1953 at the age of 91. Many of his paintings are in private collections and others can be found in The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. 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) HMS Lion (1930) The epic of Dunkirk (1940) HMS Hood (1920) HMS Hood (1938) HMS Edinburgh (1906) HMS Revenge (1918) HMS King Edward VII and The Channel Fleet (1908) HMS Sylvia (1904) Review of the fleet off Torbay (1922) French Warship Dakar (1940) Graf Spee and the Battle of the River Plate (1939) HMS Royal Oak leaving Plymouth HMS Karakatta (1906) Dreadnought, Portsmouth Harbour(1910) Paddle tug & Fishing boats (1900) The Hamoaze (1935) HMS Emperor of India at Scapa Flow (1918) Britannia Royal Naval College (1928) HMS Tiger (1919) 1st Cruiser Squadron (1918) References External links The Bermuda paintings at bermuda-online.org 1862 births 1953 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters 20th-century English painters 20th-century English male artists 19th-century English male artists