1899 in art
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The year 1899 in art involved some significant events.
Events
- December 15 â Glasgow School of Art opens its new building, the most notable work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.[1]
- Camille Pissarro takes an apartment overlooking the Tuileries Garden in Paris and produces a series of paintings of the view.
Works


- Almeida Júnior â Saudade
- Wilhelm Amberg â Lost in Thoughts (approx. date)
- Ottó Baditz â Women in the Prison
- Louis-Ernest Barrias â Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science
- Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant â Portrait of Queen Victoria[2]
- George Edwin Bissell â Statue of Chester A. Arthur (bronze, New York City)
- Pierre Bonnard â Little Girl with a Cat
- Léon Bonnat â Marie Georgine de Ligne
- Paul Cézanne â Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
- Jules Dalou â Monument à Alphand (Paris)
- Thomas Eakins
- Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams (first version)
- Wrestlers
- Jean Leon Gerome Ferris â Signing the Mayflower Compact
- Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter â Equestrian statue of Ulysses S. Grant
- Paul Gauguin â Two Tahitian Women
- J. W. Godward
- The Bouquet
- The Delphic Oracle
- The Mirror
- The Signal
- William Harnett â Violin
- Winslow Homer â The Gulf Stream
- William Holman Hunt â The Miracle of the Holy Fire
- Peder Severin Krøyer â Summer evening by Skagen's beach: Artist and his wife
- Constantin Meunier â The Horse at the Pond (Brussels)
- Claude Monet â Charing Cross Bridge (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid)
- Edvard Munch â The Dance of Life
- John F. Peto â Still life with Mug, Pipe and Book
- Maurice Prendergast â Splash of Sunshine and Rain
- Mykola Pymonenko â A Victim of Fanaticism
- Lionel Royer -Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar
- John Singer Sargent
- Vardges Sureniants â After the Massacre
- Leon WyczóÅkowski â Irena Solska
- W. L. Wyllie â 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 â Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (died 1986)
- March 20 â G. David Thompson, American industrialist and collector of modern art (died 1965)
- April 3 â Borislav BogdanoviÄ, Serbian portraitist (died 1970)
- April 27 â 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 â Lotte Reiniger, German silhouette animator and film director (died 1981)
- June 12 â Anni Albers, born Annelise Fleischmann, German-born textile artist and printmaker (died 1994)
- July 3 â Else Halling, Norwegian tapestry weaver (died 1987)
- July 16 â Božidar Jakac, Slovene painter and graphic artist (died 1989)
- July (unknown day) - Isaac Frenkel Frenel, Israeli French painter and sculptor (died 1981)
- August 10 â Margarete Heymann, German-born ceramic artist (died 1990)
- August 19 â Bradley Walker Tomlin, American painter (died 1955)
- September 9 â Brassaï, Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker (died 1984)
- September 24 â William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (died 1970)
- December 4 â Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, German avant-garde painter (euthanized 1940)
- December 25 â Raphael Soyer, Russian-born American painter (died 1987)
Deaths
- January 29 â Alfred Sisley, French Impressionist painter (born 1839)
- January 30 â Harry Bates, English sculptor (born 1850)
- March 27 â Myles Birket Foster, English illustrator and watercolour painter (born 1825)
- May 25 â Rosa Bonheur, French painter (born 1822)
- July 21 â Louis Eysen, German painter (born 1843)
- July 29 â Adolf Schreyer, German painter (born 1828)
- August 22 â Caspar Buberl, American sculptor (born 1834)
- November 13 â Almeida Júnior, Brazilian painter (born 1850)
- December 7 â Juan Luna, Filipino painter (born 1857)
- December 23 â Dominique Antoine Magaud, French painter (born 1817)
- date unknown â François Salle, French realist painter (born 1839)