1899 In Art

The year 1899 in art involved some significant events.

Events

* December 15 – Glasgow School of Art opens its new building, the most notable work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
* Camille Pissarro takes an apartment overlooking the Tuileries Garden in Paris and produces a series of paintings of the view.

Works

* José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior – ''Saudade''
* Wilhelm Amberg – '' Lost in Thoughts'' (approx. date)
* Ottó Baditz – '' Women in the Prison''
* Louis-Ernest Barrias – '' Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science''
* George Edwin Bissell – Statue of Chester A. Arthur (bronze, New York City)
* Pierre Bonnard – ''Little Girl with a Cat''
* Léon Bonnat – '' Marie Georgine de Ligne''
* Jules Dalou – '' Monument à Alphand'' (Paris)
* Thomas Eakins
** ''Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams'' (first version)
** ''Wrestlers''
* Jean Leon Gerome Ferris – '' Signing the Mayflower Compact''
* Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter – Equestrian statue of Ulysses S. Grant
* Paul Gauguin – '' Two Tahitian Women''
* J. W. Godward
** ''The Bouquet''
** ''The Delphic Oracle''
** '' The Mirror''
** ''The Signal''
* William Harnett – ''Violin''
* Winslow Homer – '' The Gulf Stream''
* William Holman Hunt – '' The Miracle of the Holy Fire''
* Peder Severin Krøyer – '' Summer evening by Skagen's beach: Artist and his wife''
* Constantin Meunier – '' The Horse at the Pond'' (Brussels)
* Claude Monet – ''Charing Cross Bridge'' (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid)
* Edvard Munch – ''The Dance of Life''
* John F. Peto – '' Still life with Mug, Pipe and Book''
* Maurice Prendergast – '' Splash of Sunshine and Rain''
* Mykola Pymonenko – '' A Victim of Fanaticism''
* Lionel Royer -'' Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar''
* John Singer Sargent – '' The Wyndham Sisters''
* Vardges Sureniants – '' After the Massacre''
* Leon Wyczółkowski – ''Irena Solska''
* W. L. Wyllie –
The Battle of the Nile
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Births

* January 20
** Pierre Gandon, French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (died 1990)
** Clarice Cliff, English ceramic artist (died 1972)
* February 15
** Lillian Disney, American artist and wife of Walt Disney (died 1997)
** Grethe Jürgens, German painter (died 1981)
* February 22 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (died 1986)
* March 20 – G. David Thompson, American industrialist and collector of modern art (died 1965)
* April 3 – Borislav Bogdanović, Serbian portraitist (died 1970)
* April 27 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist and animator (died 1994)
* May 22
** Kosta Hakman, Serbian painter (died 1961)
** Pan Yuliang, Chinese-born painter (died 1977)
* June 2 – Lotte Reiniger, German silhouette animator and film director (died 1981)
* June 12 – Anni Albers, born Annelise Fleischmann, German-born textile artist and printmaker (died 1994)
* July 3 – Else Halling, Norwegian tapestry weaver (died 1987)
* July 16 – Božidar Jakac, Slovene painter and graphic artist (died 1989)
* July (unknown day) - Isaac Frenkel Frenel, Israeli French painter and scultpor (died 1981)
* August 10 – Margarete Heymann, German-born ceramic artist (died 1990)
* August 19 – Bradley Walker Tomlin, American painter (died 1955)
* September 9 – Brassaï, Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker (died 1984)
* September 24 – William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (died 1970)
* December 4 – Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, German avant-garde painter (euthanized 1940)
* December 25 – Raphael Soyer, Russian-born American painter (died 1987)

Deaths

* January 29 – Alfred Sisley, French Impressionist painter (born 1839)
* January 30 – Harry Bates, English sculptor (born 1850)
* March 27 – Myles Birket Foster, English illustrator and watercolour painter (born 1825)
* May 25 – Rosa Bonheur, French painter (born 1822)
* July 29 – Adolf Schreyer, German painter (born 1828)
* August 22 – Caspar Buberl, American sculptor (born 1834)
* November 13 – José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Brazilian painter (born 1850)
* December 7 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter (born 1857)
* December 23 – Dominique Antoine Magaud, French painter (born 1817)
* ''date unknown'' – François Salle, French realist painter (born 1839)

References

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Years of the 19th century in art
1890s in art