Selwyn Image

Selwyn Image (February 17, 1849, Bodiam, Sussex – August 21, 1930, London) was a British clergyman, designer, including of stained glass windows and poet.

He was born in Sussex, and was educated at Brighton College and the University of Oxford. At Oxford, he fell under the influence of John Ruskin. He left a career in the Church of England in 1882. He founded the Century Guild of Artists in London with Arthur H. Mackmurdo, and the Guild's workshops. He was co-editor of the Guild's magazine, The Hobby Horse, from 1886 to 1892.

Image is mentioned as a Hobby Horse contributor in Matthew B. Tildesley, 'The Sketches of Dorian Gray : Oscar Wilde and The Century Guild Hobby Horse', The Wildean, No. 37, July 2010, which contains a picture of Image and the statement (p. 68) : 'Selwyn Image gave a series of four lectures on Modern Art at Willis' Rooms between December 1887 and February 1888. Wilde attended at least one of this series, as is attested to by his review of the second lecture in the Sunday Times on 25 January 1888.'

In 1910, he became Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford.

Works

• Title Page to The Century Guild Hobby Horse (1884)
• Poems and Carols (1894)
• Poems (1932), edited by Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo

Stained glass

• St Mary's, Mortehoe
• St. Michael and All Angels, Waterford, Hertfordshire
• St Peter's Church, Cranbourne, Berkshire
• St Andrew's, Much Hadham

External links

• Short biography, with some links