Edward Alexander Wadsworth (1889–1949) was a key figure in the modernist Vorticist movement. During the First World War, he designed Dazzle camouflage for the Royal Navy and continued to explore nautical themes in his later work. Originally trained in engineering, he went on to study at the Bradford School of Art before winning a scholarship to the Slade School, where his contemporaries included Stanley Spencer, C.R.W. Nevinson, Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington, and David Bomberg.