Lewis Pinhorn Wood

In early married life Pinhorn Wood lived and worked at Burnside in the village of Shere, Surrey,[2] before moving to Highgate, London, and latterly to Homefield Road in Chiswick.

From 1873 to 1884 Wood worked as an art master at University College School in Hampstead,[6] a job allowing him to continue his painting tours of the country, particularly during the summer months.

From the 1870s onward, Wood focussed on rural landscapes, working mainly in watercolour, but occasionally in oil, across Sussex, Surrey and some London Boroughs.

In 1890, aged 41 and with a young family of four, he wrote a story for children entitled "Harry Goodchild's Day Dream: A Tale".

The monthly magazine The Coming Day reviewed it as "A childish but rather pretty story about two children who were gifted with wings to enable them to fly for once to the moon".

[15] In 1921 the art collector Arthur Myers Smith (1871-1936) donated three watercolours by Pinhorn Wood of the Belgian city of Namur, on the River Meuse, to the Victoria and Albert Museum.