A member of the extended Wood family of pottery modellers and manufacturers, Enoch Wood, trained as a modeller before setting up in business as a pottery manufacturer in Burslem, Staffordshire, in 1783. His most successful model was his bust of John Wesley, first produced in the 1780s and widely reproduced by his factory and other manufacturers throughout much of the 19th century. He was best known for his extensive production of pottery tableware and of small-scale pottery figures of mythological, religious and contemporary subjects, which made him very wealthy. In the early 19th century he also produced a limited number of life-size portrait busts of family members and royalty.