Image, Selwyn
Selwyn Image (1849-1936) was a priest, a poet, and a wide-ranging designer and artist: stained glass, mosaic, wallpaper, furniture, embroidery, book illustration and book binding. At New College, Oxford, he studied drawing under Ruskin. In 1873 he was ordained priest, and served at All Hallows, Tottenham and St Anne’s, Soho. He resigned from the priesthood in 1882 to devote himself wholly to art. In 1883 he co-founded the Century Guild with Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851-1942) and Herbert P. Horne (1864-1916). He was a regular contributor to its periodical, The Hobby Horse. Image was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford 1910-16.
Source: Mitchell, N. Rebecca. “Selwyn Image (1849-1930)” Y90s Biographies. Yellow Nineties 2.0, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2021, https://1890s.ca/image_bio/
