Frank Albert Antony Wootton OBE PPGAvA (30 July 1914 – 21 April 1998) was an aviation artist, famous for his works depicting the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
In this time he wrote several books on art instruction, one of which, How to Draw Aircraft, went on to be a best-seller, In 1939, he volunteered for the Royal Air Force but instead was invited by the commander-in-chief of the Allied Air Forces to accept a special duty commission as war artist to the R.A.F.
He painted RAF subjects from England to France and Belgium before travelling to Southeast Asia at the end of World War II.
[3] In the late 1930's he produced How to Draw Cars, an art instruction book featuring many of his motor illustrations,[4] which was published by Studio Publications in 1949.
For service in World War II, Frank Wootton was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1995.