William Gershom Collingwood
For many years Collingwood dedicated himself to helping Ruskin, staying at Brantwood as Ruskin’s assistant and travelling with him. In 1883 he married Edith Mary Isaac (1857–1928) and settled near to Ruskin in the Lake District.
Collingwood edited a number of Ruskin’s texts and published a biography of Ruskin in 1893.
A prolific painter he records spending many days with Ruskin painting around Brantwood and the surrounding area, we have a number of his paintings in this collection.