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IMAGE, SELWYN (1849-193o), English illustrator and designer, was born at Bodiam, Sussex. He was educated at Marl borough, and New college, Oxford, and received his art training at the Slade school, Oxford, under Ruskin. In 1872 he was ordained deacon and in 1878 priest, having been a curate at All Hallows, Tottenham, in 1875 and at St. Anne's Soho, from 1876 to 1880. In 190o he became master of the Art Workers' guild and from 1916 he was Slade professor at Oxford. Among his published lectures are: Art, Morals and the War (1914) and a treatise on preparing cartoons for stained glass and grisaille work, which is included in Gleeson White's Practical Designing (1894) . He designed the west window of St. Luke's church, Camberwell, and the Four Archangels in Morthoe church, Devon. His Poems and Carols were published in

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