1892 In Art

The year 1892 in art involved some significant events.

Events

* February – Claude Monet begins painting his Rouen Cathedral series
* c. February – Alfred Gilbert is commissioned to sculpt the tomb (with recumbent effigy) of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, in the Albert Memorial Chapel of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England; although not finished until 1928 it is substantially complete in 1898 as "the finest single example of late 19th-century sculpture in the British Isles"
* March – James McNeill Whistler stages his major retrospective exhibition, ''Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet pieces'' at Goupil & Cie's London gallery, then moves to Paris
* April 4 – Munich Secession
* May – The Brotherhood of The Linked Ring is founded by Henry Peach Robinson in England to promote photography as a fine art
* November – "The Munch Affair": Adelsteen Normann, on behalf of the Union of Berlin Artists, invites Edvard Munch to stage a one-man exhibition. However, his paintings evoke bitter controversy and after one week the exhibition is closed; Munch's paintings are moved to the Equitable Palast
* Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Herbert MacNair are introduced to Margaret and Frances MacDonald in Glasgow
* ''Il Codice Magliabechiano'', a 16th century collection of brief biographies and notes on the works of Italian artists by " Anonimo Gaddiano", is first published

Awards

*Legion of Honour (France) – James McNeill Whistler

Works of art

Paintings

*Ivan Aivazovsky – '' Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships''
*José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior – '' Leitura'' ("Reading")
* John Henry Frederick Bacon –
The Wedding Morning
'
*Gustave Caillebotte
**'' Nasturtiums''
**'' Portrait of the artist''
* Gustaf Cederström – ''Magnus Stenbock in Malmö''
* John Collier – ''Lilith''
*Thomas Eakins – '' The Concert Singer''
*James Ensor
**''Man of Sorrows'' (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp)
**''The Skate''
*Paul Gauguin- ** Arearea l
**'' Aha Oe Feii?''
** ''Fatata te Miti'' ("By the Sea")
**''Spirit of the Dead Watching''
**'' Te Fare''
we shall not go to the market today
**''When Will You Marry?''
* J. W. Godward
**''At The Garden Shrine, Pompeii''
**''The Betrothed''
**''Classical Beauty''
**''Far Away Thoughts'' (two versions)
**''Leaning On The Balcony''
**''The Playground''
**''With Violets Wreathed And Robe Of Saffron Hue''
* Lydia Purdy Hess – ''Portrait of Miss E. H.''
* P. S. Krøyer – '' Summer Evening at Skagen. The Artist's Wife and Dog by the Shore''
* Sir Frederic Leighton – '' The Garden of the Hesperides''
*Isaac Levitan – '' Evening Bells''
*Maximilien Luce – '' Côte de la citadelle''
*Juan Luna
**'' The Parisian Life''
**'' Peuple et Rois''
* Jacek Malczewski
**'' Christmas Eve in Siberia''
**'' Self-portrait with palette''
*Francis Davis Millet
**'' An Autumn Idyll''
**
Between Two Fires
'
*Albert Joseph Moore – ''Lightning and Light''
* Edvard Munch
**'' Evening on Karl Johan''
**'' Inger in Black and Violet''
**''August Strindberg''
* John Singer Sargent – '' Mrs. Hugh Hammersley''
*Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
**'' La Goulue arriving at the Moulin Rouge'' (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
**''Le Lit''
**''At the Moulin Rouge''
**'' At the Moulin Rouge: two women waltzing''
**'' Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge''
**Posters for Aristide Bruant
*Henry Scott Tuke –
Mrs Florence Humphris
'
*Félix Vallotton
**'' Bathers on a Summer Evening'' (1892–93)
**'' The Invalid''
*Édouard Vuillard – ''Self-Portrait''

Sculptures

*Charles E. Barber – United States Barber coinage
*Jean-Léon Gérôme – ''Bellona''
*Felix Görling – Statue of Alexander von Humboldt (Chicago)
*Richard Henry Park – John Plankinton statue
*Jeronimo Sunol – Statue of Christopher Columbus (Central Park, New York City)

Other

*The Diamond Trellis Egg is presented to Maria Feodorovna by her husband Alexander III of Russia

Births

*29 February – Augusta Savage, African American sculptor (died 1962).
*5 March - Dean Cornwell, American illustrator, painter, and muralist (died 1960)
* 14 March – Charles Wheeler, English sculptor (died 1974).
*12 May – Colin Gill, English war artist, muralist and portrait painter (died 1940).
*14 May – Marjorie Watson-Williams, English painter (died 1984).
* 19 May – Wilhelm Heise, German painter (died 1965).
*30 May – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (died 1972).
*31 May – Michel Kikoine, painter (died 1968).
*30 June – Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, German painter (died 1966).
* 15 July – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, "comparatists" and art critic (died 1940).
*July 19 – Suzanne Malherbe, French illustrator and designer (died 1972).
*July 24 – Marcel Gromaire, French painter (died 1971).
*7 August – Einar Forseth, Swedish artist.
*16 August – Otto Messmer, American animator (died 1983).
*11 October – Anton Räderscheidt, German painter (died 1970).
* 16 October – Adolf Ziegler, German painter and politician (died 1959).
*23 November – Romain de Tirtoff, Russian-born French artist and designer (died 1990).
*7 December – Stuart Davis, American painter (died 1964).
*Undated
**Lang Jingshan, Chinese photographer (died 1995).
**Veljko Stanojević, Serbian painter (died 1967).

Deaths

*January 11 – Amanda Sidwall, Swedish painter and illustrator (born 1844)
* January 14 – Alexander Jackson Davis, American architect and illustrator (born 1803)
* January 15 – Randolph Rogers, American neoclassical sculptor (born 1825)
* January 20 – Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, French engraver (born 1797)
* February 27 – Louis Vuitton, French designer (born 1821)
*March 3 – Fedor Solntsev, Russian painter and art historian (born 1801)
*March 21 – Anthon van Rappard, Dutch painter (born 1858)
*June 1 – Louis Janmot, French painter (born 1814)
*October 5 – Albert Aurier, French Symbolist poet, art critic and painter (born 1865)
*October 7 – Thomas Woolner, English sculptor and poet (born 1825)
*October 29 – William Harnett, Irish American trompe l'oeil painter (born 1848)
*Undated
** John Lewis Brown, French painter (born 1829)
**Walter Hood Fitch, British botanical artist (born 1817)
**Serafino De Tivoli, Italian painter (born 1826)

References

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Years of the 19th century in art
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