William Wood

William Wood was born in London, the youngest child and only son of William Wood Senior (d. 1816) and Bethiah, née Townsend (1732-1805). He entered the Royal Academy in 1785 and exhibited his paintings there from 1788 to 1807. He appears to have also participated in the exhibitions in Bristol between 1791 and 1803 as well as in Gloucester in 1798. He was a founder member of the Associated Artists in Water Colour and became president of this institution in 1808. In the same year he published his Essay on National and Sepulchral Monuments. William Wood died at the age of only 40, on November 15th, 1809, and was buried in London's Bunhill Fields Cemetery (we are grateful to Simon Francis Brown, London, for his research on Wood's family and life dates).