Selwyn Image
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Selwyn Image (17 February 1849,
Early life and education
Selwyn Image was born in Bodiam, Sussex, on 17 February 1849 to the Reverend John Image (c. 1802–1878), vicar of Bodiam and Mary Maxwell (née Hinds c. 1807–1857).[1] He attended Marlborough College and New College, Oxford, in 1868 where he studied drawing under John Ruskin.[2] Intending on entering the clergy and following his father as Vicar of Bodiam, Image took Holy Orders at the age of 24. He was ordained deacon in 1872, and priest the next year. He was a curate at Tottenham and later at St. Anne's, Soho. Image began studying art with A. H. Mackmurdo and Ruskin's assistant, Arthur Burgess in 1880.[3] Image eventually abandoned the clergy in 1882.[4][5]
The Century Guild of Artists and Art Workers' Guild
He was associated with the
Stained glass designer
One of Image's first
The basis of Image's stained glass design was a "simplicity of treatment, not only in figure drawing and ornament—which closely match his contemporary graphic work, such as for the Century Guild The Hobby Horse—but also in the use of leading. In an article published in The Hobby Horse in 1890, Image expounded his principles of stained glass design, emphasizing that qualities of 'richness and brilliance of effect ... in no small measure depend upon the management of the leads'".[6]
Image and well-known stained glass artist
Image was influential in the work of a number of
Writer, lecturer, and poet
Image was an influential writer on design and the first Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford (1910 to 1916).[5] He published a number of essays and contributed introductions and chapters to scholarly publications.
Between December 1887 and February 1888, Image gave a series of four lectures on modern art at Willis' Rooms. Oscar Wilde attended at least the second lecture, which he reviewed in The Sunday Times on 25 January 1888.[7]
Image also wrote poetry, which he eventually collected in his 1894 book Poems and Carols.
Other work
Image's line-block design for the cover of the inaugural 1884 issue of the Hobby Horse, the Guild's publication, is widely known. Other celebrated works include the design of embroideries for the Royal School of Needlework and bookbindings such as that for the novel Stefania (1893).[8]
In 1900, Image was hired as a designer for the Glasgow furniture manufacturer, Wylie and Lochead.[5]
Death and legacy
Image died at Holloway on 21 August 1930 and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.[4] Two years after his death, selected poems and later his letters, edited by Mackmurdo was published.[8]
Stained glass work
- St Mary's, Mortehoe, Devon (1888)[5]
- Wise Virgins, St. Michael and All Angels, Waterford, Hertfordshire (1888)[6]
- Archangels, St. Cuthbert's church, Darlington, Durham, England (1889)[6]
- St. Peter's Church, Cranbourne, Berkshire
- Angels & Transfiguration, St. Andrew's, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire (1891)
- Brownies, Solham House, Newmarket (1895), (currently on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum)[9]
- St. Luke's Church, Camberwell[5]
Selected publications
- Image, Selwyn (1894). Poems and Carols (1894). London: E. Matthews. p. 47.
- Image, Selwyn (1929). Some Reflections on the Art of Thomas Rowlandson & George Morland. London: Print Collector's Club.
- Mackmurdo, Arthur Heygate, ed. (1932). The Poems of Selwyn Image (1st ed.). London: Elkin, Matthews and Marrot.[4]
- Poems (1932), edited by Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo[4]
- Mackmurdo, Arthur Heygate, ed. (1932). Selwyn Image Letters. London: Grant Richards Pronto Limited. p. 219.
- Miles, Alfred H. (2011). The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century Edward Hayes Plumptre to Selwyn Image. BiblioLife. p. 440. ISBN 978-1113886460.
See also
References
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- ^ "Selwyn Image (Biographical Details)". British Museum. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
- ^ Tildesley, Matthew B. (2007). The century guild hobby horse and Oscar Wilde: a study of British little magazines, 1884–1897 (PhD). Durham University.
- ^ a b c d e Catalogue of A. H. Mackmurdo and the Century Guild Collection. William Morris Gallery Walthamstow. 1967. p. 48.
- ^ ISBN 978-0199923052. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
- ^ ISBN 978-0300209709.
- ^ Tildesley, Matthew B. (July 2010). "The Sketches of Dorian Gray : Oscar Wilde and The Century Guild Hobby Horse". The Wildean (37).
- ^ a b "OVERVIEW Selwyn Image (1849—1930) designer". Oxford Index. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
- ^ "Brownies". Victoria and Albert Museum Collections. Retrieved 22 July 2018.