1891 in art
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The year 1891 in art involved some significant events.
Events
- March 29 â French Post-Impressionist painter Georges Seurat dies aged 31 in Paris, having completed around 45 canvases in his lifetime and known to have sold only three.[1]
- May 10 â 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 â 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
- Frank Bramley â For Of Such Is The Kingdom Of Heaven
- Edward Burne-Jones â Sponsa de Libano
- Philip Hermogenes Calderon â Saint Elizabeth of Hungary's Great Act of Renunciation
- Milly Childers â Hugh Culling Eardley Childers
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes â The Shepherd's Song
- Ãdouard Detaille â Vive L'Empereur: charge du quatrième hussards à la bataille de Friedland, 14 juin 1807
- Alexander Doyle â Statue of Henry W. Grady
- Thomas Eakins â Miss Amelia Van Buren (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)
- James Ensor â Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels)
- Luke Fildes â The Doctor
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela â Aino Triptych (second version)
- Paul Gauguin â Tahitian Women on the Beach
- J. W. Godward
- Innocent Amusement
- A Pompeian Lady
- The Sweet Siesta of a Summer Day
- Hubert von Herkomer
- Carl Kahler â My Wife's Lovers
- Benjamin Williams Leader â The Excavation of the Manchester Ship Canal: Eastham Cutting with Mount Manisty in the Distance
- Sir Frederic Leighton â Perseus and Andromeda
- John Henry Lorimer â The Ordination of Elders in a Scottish Kirk
- Frederick William MacMonnies â Statue of James S. T. Stranahan
- Jan Matejko â Constitution of May 3, 1791
- John Everett Millais â Glen Birnam
- Claude Monet
- Edvard Munch â Melancholy (first version)
- Mikhail Nesterov â The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew
- Edward Poynter â When the World was Young
- Henrietta Rae â Miss Nightingale at Scutari (1854)
- Paul Ranson â Witches Around the Fire
- Ilya Repin â Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
- Tom Roberts â A break away!
- Henri Rousseau â Tiger in a Tropical Storm
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens â Adams Memorial
- John Singer Sargent â Egyptians Raising Water from the Nile
- Giovanni Segantini
- Georges Seurat â completion of The Circus (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- John "Hans" Staehli â Chiming Fountain, Portland, Oregon
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec â Moulin Rouge: La Goulue (color lithographic poster)
- Edward Arthur Walton â Bluette
- J. W. Waterhouse â Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses
- George Frederic Watts â After the Deluge
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Births
- January 21 â Franz Sedlacek, Austrian painter (died 1945)
- February 13 â Grant Wood, American painter (died 1942)
- April 2 â Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet (died 1976)
- April 4 â Virgilio Guidi, Italian painter (died 1984)
- April 7 â David Low, New Zealand-born editorial cartoonist (died 1963)
- May 10 â Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (died 1934)
- June 8 â Audrey Munson, American actress and artist's model (died 1996)
- June 19 â John Heartfield, born Helmut Herzfeld, German graphic designer (died 1968)
- June 30 - Stanley Spencer, English painter (died 1959)
- August 15 â Iva DespiÄ-SimonoviÄ, Croatian sculptor (died 1961)
- August 25 â Alberto Savinio, Italian writer, painter and composer (died 1952)
- September 22 â Alma Thomas, African American abstract expressionist painter (died 1978)
- October 7 â Charles R. Chickering, American illustrator (died 1970)
- October 11 â George Ault, American painter (died 1948)
- December 2 â Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (died 1969)
- December 9 â Mark Gertler, British painter (died 1939)
Deaths
- January 27 â Jervis McEntee, American painter of the Hudson River School (born 1828)
- January 30 â Charles Joshua Chaplin, French painter and engraver (born 1825)
- January 31 â Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, French classicist painter (born 1815)
- February 9 â Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (born 1819)
- March 19 â Ernest Hoschedé, French businessman and collector of Impressionist paintings (born 1837)
- March 26 â Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, Dutch watercolorist (born 1822)
- March 29 â Georges Seurat, French Post-Impressionist painter (born 1859)
- April 5 â Daniel Cottier, Scottish-born artist and designer (born 1837)
- April 14 â Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve, Spanish painter, son of Juan Antonio Ribera (born 1815)
- May 12 â Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, British Pre-Raphaelite watercolourist (born 1818)
- May 16 â John Banvard, American panorama painter (born 1815)
- September 5 â Jules-Ãlie Delaunay, French academic painter (born 1828)
- September 6 â Elise Arnberg, Swedish miniaturist and photographer (born 1826)
- September 9 â William Theed, English sculptor (born 1804)
- September 11 â Théodule Ribot, French realist painter (born 1823)
- September 15 â John Steell, Scottish portrait sculptor (born 1804)
- October 30 â Truman Seymour, American soldier and painter (born 1824)