diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index c6ee8b47b..0843ec10b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Changelog
  * Notification emails are now sent per user (Matthew Downey)
  * Added the ability to override the default manager on Page models
  * Added an optional human-friendly `site_name` field to sites (Timo Rieber)
+ * Added success message after updating image from the image upload view (Christian Peters)
  * New translations for Arabic and Latvian
  * Fix: HTTP cache purge now works again on Python 2 (Mitchel Cabuloy)
  * Fix: Locked pages can no longer be unpublished (Alex Bridge)
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
index 4dabcf77c..76d8c846b 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ Contributors
 * Maris Serzans
 * Shu Ishida
 * Ben Kerle
+* Christian Peters
 
 
 Translators
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.3.rst b/docs/releases/1.3.rst
index 7e7f2125b..030154255 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.3.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/1.3.rst
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ Minor features
  * Notification emails are now sent per user (Matthew Downey)
  * Added the ability to override the default manager on Page models
  * Added an optional human-friendly ``site_name`` field to sites (Timo Rieber)
+ * Added success message after updating image from the image upload view (Christian Peters)
  * New translations for Arabic and Latvian
 
 
diff --git a/wagtail/wagtailimages/static_src/wagtailimages/js/add-multiple.js b/wagtail/wagtailimages/static_src/wagtailimages/js/add-multiple.js
index a7c72a7e8..7262e60a1 100644
--- a/wagtail/wagtailimages/static_src/wagtailimages/js/add-multiple.js
+++ b/wagtail/wagtailimages/static_src/wagtailimages/js/add-multiple.js
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ $(function() {
             maxFileSize: window.fileupload_opts.errormessages.max_file_size
         },
         add: function(e, data) {
+            $('.messages').empty();
             var $this = $(this);
             var that = $this.data('blueimp-fileupload') || $this.data('fileupload')
             var li = $($('#upload-list-item').html()).addClass('upload-uploading')
@@ -134,6 +135,8 @@ $(function() {
 
         $.post(this.action, form.serialize(), function(data) {
             if (data.success) {
+                var statusText = $('.status-msg.update-success').text();
+                addMessage('success', statusText);
                 itemElement.slideUp(function() {$(this).remove()});
             } else {
                 form.replaceWith(data.form);
diff --git a/wagtail/wagtailimages/templates/wagtailimages/multiple/add.html b/wagtail/wagtailimages/templates/wagtailimages/multiple/add.html
index 85a099eea..c4b662529 100644
--- a/wagtail/wagtailimages/templates/wagtailimages/multiple/add.html
+++ b/wagtail/wagtailimages/templates/wagtailimages/multiple/add.html
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
             <div class="right col9">
                 <p class="status-msg success">{% trans "Upload successful. Please update this image with a more appropriate title, if necessary. You may also delete the image completely if the upload wasn't required." %}</p>
                 <p class="status-msg failure">{% trans "Sorry, upload failed." %}</p>
+                <p class="status-msg update-success">{% trans "Image updated." %}</p>
                 <p class="status-msg failure error_messages"></p>
             </div>            
         </li>