1892 in art

Last updated September 16, 2025

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"^[1]
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
- Claude-Charles Bourgonnier is barred from exhibiting art at the Paris Salon for a two-year period after tearing up one of his own paintings while it is on display^[2]
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^[3]
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

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).
4 April – Italo Mus, Italian painter (died 1967)
8 May – Luigi Del Bianco, Italian-born American sculptor (died 1969)
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)
December 9 – Ernst Klimt, Austrian mural painter (born 1864)
Undated
- Walter Hood Fitch, British botanical artist (born 1817)
- Serafino De Tivoli, Italian painter (born 1826)

References

↑ Roskill, Mark (1968). "Alfred Gilbert's Monument to the Duke of Clarence: A Study in the Sources of Later Victorian Sculpture". The Burlington Magazine . 110: 699–704.
↑ "Sous-comité". Compte-rendu des travaux de la Société des artistes français. Société des Artistes Français. 2 May 1892.
↑ Prideaux, Sue (2005). Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream . New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 135–7. ISBN 978-0-300-12401-9.
↑ "VIDEO: How Tahiti transformed Gauguin". 15 February 2017.

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[1] Roskill, Mark (1968). "Alfred Gilbert's Monument to the Duke of Clarence: A Study in the Sources of Later Victorian Sculpture". The Burlington Magazine . 110: 699–704.

[2] "Sous-comité". Compte-rendu des travaux de la Société des artistes français. Société des Artistes Français. 2 May 1892.

[3] Prideaux, Sue (2005). Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream . New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 135–7. ISBN 978-0-300-12401-9.

[4] "VIDEO: How Tahiti transformed Gauguin". 15 February 2017.

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1892 in art

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