1. Selwyn Image was a British artist, designer, writer and poet associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement.
19 Facts About Selwyn Image
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Selwyn Image designed stained glass windows, furniture and embroidery, and illustrated books.
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Selwyn Image was the seventh Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford from 1910 to 1916.
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Selwyn Image attended Marlborough College and New College, Oxford, in 1868 where he studied drawing under John Ruskin.
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Selwyn Image was ordained deacon in 1872 and priest the next year.
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Selwyn Image was a curate at Tottenham and later at St Anne's, Soho.
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Selwyn Image established the Guild's workshops which produced furniture, wallpaper, primarily domestic design such as furniture, stained glass, metalwork and decorative painting.
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Selwyn Image co-edited the Guild's magazine, The Hobby Horse, from 1886 to 1892.
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Selwyn Image was an active member of the Art Workers' Guild in London and became a Master of the guild in 1900.
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Selwyn Image's designs were influenced by the work of William Morris.
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Whall and Selwyn Image were among the earliest pioneers and important contributors to the Arts and Crafts Movement.
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Selwyn Image designed fewer than thirty windows during his career, but a number of cartoons were displayed at Arts and Crafts Exhibitions.
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Several of Selwyn Image's designs were illustrated in books and magazines where Selwyn Image acquired a wide following.
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Selwyn Image was an influential writer on design and the first Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford.
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Selwyn Image published a number of essays and contributed introductions and chapters to scholarly publications.
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Between December 1887 and February 1888, Selwyn Image gave a series of four lectures on modern art at Willis' Rooms.
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Selwyn Image wrote poetry, which he eventually collected in his 1894 book Poems and Carols.
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In 1900, Selwyn Image was hired as a designer for the Glasgow furniture manufacturer, Wylie and Lochead.
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Selwyn Image died at Holloway on 21 August 1930 and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.