Gordon Bottomley

Gordon Bottomley (* 1874 in Keighley, † 1948 in Silverdale ( Lancashire ) ) was an English writer. He was a influenced by the poets of English Romanticism as William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats and the Pre-Raphaelite painters of the writers of verse plays and poems. Edward Marsh took his poems in the collections of Georgian Poetry 1911-12 (1912 ), 1913-15 (1915), 1916-17 (1917 ) and 1918-19 (1919) on.

Bottomley was with a large number of artists in mainly corresponded contact. It is worth mentioning especially his friendship with the painter Paul Nash, whom he encouraged to paintings and illustrations, which accounted for Bottomley pieces in return. With the poet Isaac Rosenberg Bottomley was also in contact and supervised later the work of Rosenberg as a publisher.

Bottomley was also an art collector. His collection of six hundred paintings, drawings and prints with images of Paul Nash - but also with important works of the Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne -Jones, William Morris, Arthur Hughes, Ford Madox Brown, Elizabeth Siddal and Simeon Solomon, is now in Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery in Carlisle.