1891 In Art

The year 1891 in art involved some significant events.

Events

* May 10 – Danish sculptor Anne Marie Brodersen marries her compatriot, the classical composer Carl Nielsen, in St Mark's English Church, Florence, the couple having first met on March 2 in Paris.
* June – Sidney Paget produces his first illustrations for Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in ''The Strand Magazine''.
* Henri Matisse begins his studies at the Académie Julian.
* Correspondence of Marie Bashkirtseff and Gustave Flaubert is published.
* Paul Gauguin sails to French Polynesia.
* Impressionist Armand Guillaumin wins 100,000 francs in the French state lottery and is able to devote himself to painting full-time.
* Félix Vallotton makes his first woodcuts.

Works

* William-Adolphe Bouguereau
** ''The Goose Girl''
** '' Work Interrupted''
* Frank Bramley – '' For Of Such Is The Kingdom Of Heaven''
* Edward Burne-Jones – ''Sponsa de Libano''
* Philip Hermogenes Calderon – '' St. Elizabeth of Hungary''
* Milly Childers – '' Hugh Culling Eardley Childers''
* Pierre Puvis de Chavannes – '' The Shepherd's Song''
* Édouard Detaille – '' Vive L'Empereur: charge du quatrième hussards à la bataille de Friedland, 14 juin 1807''
* Alexander Doyle – Statue of Henry W. Grady
* Thomas Eakins – '' Miss Amelia Van Buren'' (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)
* James Ensor – ''Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring'' (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels)
* Luke Fildes – '' The Doctor''
* Akseli Gallen-Kallela – '' Aino Triptych'' (second version)
* Paul Gauguin – ''Tahitian Women on the Beach''
* J. W. Godward
** ''Innocent Amusement''
** ''A Pompeian Lady''
** ''The Sweet Siesta of a Summer Day''
* Hubert von Herkomer
**
In the Black Country
'
** ''On Strike''
* Carl Kahler – '' My Wife's Lovers''
* Benjamin Williams Leader – '' The Excavation of the Manchester Ship Canal: Eastham Cutting with Mount Manisty in the Distance''
* Sir Frederic Leighton – ''Perseus and Andromeda''
* John Henry Lorimer – '' The Ordination of Elders in a Scottish Kirk''
* Frederick William MacMonnies – Statue of James S. T. Stranahan
* Jan Matejko – ''Constitution of May 3, 1791''
* Claude Monet
** The Haystack Series
** The Poplar Series
* Edvard Munch – '' Melancholy'' (first version)
* Mikhail Nesterov – '' The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew''
* Henrietta Rae – ''Miss Nightingale at Scutari (1854)''
* Ilya Repin – ''Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks''
* Tom Roberts – '' A break away!''
* Henri Rousseau''
* Augustus Saint-Gaudens – Adams Memorial
* John Singer Sargent – '' Egyptians Raising Water from the Nile''
* Giovanni Segantini
** '' Midday in the Alps''
** '' The Punishment of Lust''
* Georges Seurat – completion of '' The Circus'' (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
* John "Hans" Staehli – '' Chiming Fountain'', Portland, Oregon
* Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – '' Moulin Rouge: La Goulue'' (color lithographic poster)
* Edward Arthur Walton – '' Bluette''
* J. W. Waterhouse – ''Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses''
* George Frederic Watts – ''After the Deluge''

Births

* January 21 – Franz Sedlacek, Austrian painter (died 1945)
* February 13 – Grant Wood, American painter (died 1942)
* April 2 – Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet (died 1976)
* April 4 – Virgilio Guidi, Italian painter (died 1984)
* April 7 – David Low, New Zealand-born editorial cartoonist (died 1963)
* May 10 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (died 1934)
* June 8 – Audrey Munson, American actress and artist's model (died 1996)
* June 19 – John Heartfield, born Helmut Herzfeld, German graphic designer (died 1968)
* June 30 - Stanley Spencer, English painter (died 1959)
* August 15 – Iva Despić-Simonović, Croatian sculptor (died 1961)
* August 25 – Alberto Savinio, Italian writer, painter and composer (died 1952)
* September 22 – Alma Thomas, African American abstract expressionist painter (died 1978)
* October 7 – Charles R. Chickering, American illustrator (died 1970)
* October 11 – George Ault, American painter (died 1948)
* December 2 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (died 1969)
* December 9 – Mark Gertler, British painter (died 1939)

Deaths

* January 27 – Jervis McEntee, American painter of the Hudson River School (born 1828)
* January 30 – Charles Joshua Chaplin, French painter and engraver (born 1825)
* January 31 – Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, French classicist painter (born 1815)
* February 9 – Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (born 1819)
* March 19 – Ernest Hoschedé paintings (born 1837)
* March 26 – Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, Dutch watercolorist (born 1822)
* March 29 – Georges Seurat, French Post-Impressionist painter (born 1859)
* April 5 – Daniel Cottier, Scottish-born artist and designer (born 1837)
* April 14 – Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve, Spanish painter, son of Juan Antonio Ribera (born 1815)
* May 12 – Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, British Pre-Raphaelite watercolourist (born 1818)
* May 16 – John Banvard, American panorama painter (born 1815)
* September 5 – Jules-Élie Delaunay, French academic painter (born 1828)
* September 6 – Elise Arnberg, Swedish miniaturist and photographer (born 1826)
* September 9 – William Theed, English sculptor (born 1804)
* September 11 – Théodule Ribot, French realist painter (born 1823)
* September 15 – John Steell, Scottish portrait sculptor (born 1804)
* October 30 – Truman Seymour, American soldier and painter (born 1824)

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