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1899 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.https://www.ashmolean.org/tuileries-gardens Tuileries Gardens Ashmolean Museum 13 June 2026
December 15 – Glasgow School of Art opens its new building, the most notable work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.Congratulations to the Glasgow School of Art as they celebrate 100th anniversary of the Mackintosh Building http://www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/news/news-article/301/congratulations-to-the-glasgow-school-of-art-as-they-celebrate-100th-anniversary-of-the-mackintosh-building Museums Galleries Scotland 15 December 2009 2010-07-07 2010-02-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20100204111502/http://www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/news/news-article/301/congratulations-to-the-glasgow-school-of-art-as-they-celebrate-100th-anniversary-of-the-mackintosh-building dead
Works
thumb|P. S. Krøyer – Summer Evening at Skagen Beach – The Artist and his Wife
thumb|Wilhelm Amberg – Lost in Thoughts
Category:1899 sculptures
Almeida Júnior – Saudadehttps://artsandculture.google.com/asset/saudade-longing-almeida-j%C3%BAnior/7gHV1kRVIzKC2w?hl=en Saudade (Longing) Google Arts & Culture 14 June 2026
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 VictoriaJean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant (1845-1902) - Queen Victoria (1819-1901) https://www.rct.uk/collection/403425/queen-victoria-1819-1901 2026-10-10 www.rct.uk
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
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 VeniceAn Interior in Venice Works of Art RA Collection Royal Academy of Arts https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/an-interior-in-venice https://web.archive.org/web/20190823203945/https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/an-interior-in-venice 2026-10-10 2019-08-23
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)Ronald Pickvance Alfred Sisley (1839-99) Impressionist Landscapes Nottingham University Art Gallery 1971 40
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)Latin American Lives: Selected Biographies from the Five-volume Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture Macmillan Library Reference USA 1998 9780028650609 32
December 7 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter (born 1857)Juan Luna Eleuterio M. Pascual Jun Terra Juan Luna Drawings: The Paris Period : from the Collection of Dr. Eleuterio M. Pascual E.M. Pascual 1998 9789719209607 13
December 23 – Dominique Antoine Magaud, French painter (born 1817)
References
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