1899 in art

The year 1899 in art involved some significant events.

Events

• January – Camille Pissarro takes an apartment overlooking the Tuileries Garden in Paris and produces a series of paintings of the view. ^[1]
• December 15 – Glasgow School of Art opens its new building, the most notable work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. ^[2]

Works

P. S. Krøyer – Summer Evening at Skagen Beach – The Artist and his Wife

Wilhelm Amberg – Lost in Thoughts

See also: Category:1899 sculptures

• Almeida Júnior – Saudade ^[3]
• Wilhelm Amberg – Lost in Thoughts (approx. date)
• Ottó Baditz – Women in the Prison
• Louis-Ernest Barrias – Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science
• Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant – Portrait of Queen Victoria ^[4]
• 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
• Paul Cézanne – Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
• 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
• Edward Matthew Hale – The Charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman ^[5]
• William Harnett – Violin
• Winslow Homer – The Gulf Stream
• William Holman Hunt – The Miracle of the Holy Fire
• Peder Severin Krøyer – 《Summer Evening at Skagen Beach – The 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
  • An Interior Venice ^[6]
  • The Wyndham Sisters
• Vardges Sureniants – After the Massacre
• Leon Wyczółkowski – Irena Solska
• W. L. Wyllie – The Battle of the Nile

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 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 sculptor (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) ^[7]
• 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 21 – Louis Eysen, German painter (born 1843)
• July 29 – Adolf Schreyer, German painter (born 1828)
• August 22 – Caspar Buberl, American sculptor (born 1834)
• November 13 – Almeida Júnior, Brazilian painter (born 1850; murdered) ^[8]
• December 7 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter (born 1857) ^[9]
• December 23 – Dominique Antoine Magaud, French painter (born 1817)

References

1. "Tuileries Gardens". Ashmolean Museum. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
2. "Congratulations to the Glasgow School of Art as they celebrate 100th anniversary of the Mackintosh Building". Museums Galleries Scotland. 15 December 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-02-04. Retrieved 2010-07-07.
3. "Saudade (Longing)". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
4. "Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant (1845-1902) - Queen Victoria (1819-1901)". www.rct.uk. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
5. Schwartzwald, Jack L. Europe on the Path to Self-Destruction: Nationalism and the Struggle for Hegemony, 1815-1945. McFarland, 2022. p.142
6. "An Interior in Venice | Works of Art | RA Collection | Royal Academy of Arts". Archived from the original on 2019-08-23. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
7. Ronald Pickvance (1971). Alfred Sisley (1839-99) Impressionist Landscapes. Nottingham University Art Gallery. p. 40.
8. Latin American Lives: Selected Biographies from the Five-volume Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Macmillan Library Reference USA. 1998. p. 32. ISBN   9780028650609.
9. Juan Luna; Eleuterio M. Pascual; Jun Terra (1998). Juan Luna Drawings: The Paris Period : from the Collection of Dr. Eleuterio M. Pascual. E.M. Pascual. p. 13. ISBN   9789719209607.