Career
Wood worked for the publishing firm of Chatto & Windus in London as an in-house illustrator. His work was exhibited at most of the principal galleries, seven of his mostly military theme works were hung at the Royal Academy. The Illustrated London News sent Wood to South Dakota in 1888 where he was inspired by the American Old West way of life and for many years produced work with a Cowboy and Indian flavour.
Harper"s published a number of his illustrations.
His illustrations often appeared in early issues of Pearson"s Magazine and covered a wide range of genres. Notably, he illustrated George Griffith"s Stories of Other Worlds (1900-1901), early science fiction.
His many Africana illustrations included those for the books of Bertram Mitford (1855–1914) - The Gun Runner (1893), The Luck of Gerald Ridgeley (1894), The Curse of Clement Wayneflete (1894), Renshaw Fanning"s Quest (1894), The King"s Assegai (1894), A Veldt Official (1895) and The Expiation of Wynne Palisser (1896). In 1900, he did 100 illustrations for an American edition of Burton"s The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.
His illustrations of the Anglo-Boer War appeared in Black & White and Black & White Budget.
He worked for War Illustrated during World War I.