1891 in art

none 1891 art The year 1891 in art involved some significant events. Events March 29 – 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.Exhibition catalogue, Seurat and the Sea. London: Courtauld Gallery, 2026. May 10 – 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 – 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 thumb|300px|Henri Rousseau – Tiger in a Tropical Storm Category:1891 sculptures William-Adolphe Bouguereau The Goose Girl Work Interrupted Frank Bramley – For Of Such Is The Kingdom Of Heaven Edward Burne-Jones – Sponsa de Libano Philip Hermogenes Calderon – Saint Elizabeth of Hungary's Great Act of Renunciation Milly Childers – Hugh Culling Eardley Childers Pierre Puvis de Chavannes – The Shepherd's Song Édouard Detaille – Vive L'Empereur: charge du quatrième hussards à la bataille de Friedland, 14 juin 1807 Alexander Doyle – Statue of Henry W. Grady Thomas Eakins – Miss Amelia Van Buren (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.) James Ensor – Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels) Luke Fildes – The Doctor Akseli Gallen-Kallela – Aino Triptych (second version) Paul Gauguin – Tahitian Women on the Beach ‘’Ia Orana Maria’’ ‘’Tahitian Woman with a Flower** ‘’The Meal (The Bananas)’’ J. W. Godward Innocent Amusement A Pompeian Lady The Sweet Siesta of a Summer Day Hubert von Herkomer In the Black Country On Strike Carl Kahler – My Wife's Lovers Benjamin Williams Leader – The Excavation of the Manchester Ship Canal: Eastham Cutting with Mount Manisty in the Distance Sir Frederic Leighton – Perseus and Andromeda John Henry Lorimer – The Ordination of Elders in a Scottish Kirk Frederick William MacMonnies – Statue of James S. T. Stranahan Jan Matejko – Constitution of May 3, 1791 John Everett Millais – Glen Birnam Claude Monet The Haystack Series The Poplar Series Edvard Munch – Melancholy (first version) Mikhail Nesterov – The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew Edward Poynter – When the World was Young Henrietta Rae – Miss Nightingale at Scutari (1854) Paul Ranson – Witches Around the Fire Ilya Repin – Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks Tom Roberts – A break away! Henri Rousseau – Tiger in a Tropical Storm Augustus Saint-Gaudens – Adams Memorial John Singer Sargent – Egyptians Raising Water from the Nile Giovanni Segantini Midday in the Alps The Punishment of Lust Georges Seurat – completion of The Circus (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) John "Hans" Staehli – Chiming Fountain, Portland, Oregon Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Moulin Rouge: La Goulue (color lithographic poster) Hubert von Herkomer – On Strikehttps://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/on-strike Edward Arthur Walton – Bluette J. W. Waterhouse – Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses George Frederic Watts – After the Deluge Births January 21 – Franz Sedlacek, Austrian painter (died 1945) February 13 – Grant Wood, American painter (died 1942) April 2 – Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet (died 1976) April 4 – Virgilio Guidi, Italian painter (died 1984) April 7 – David Low, New Zealand-born editorial cartoonist (died 1963) May 10 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (died 1934) June 8 – Audrey Munson, American actress and artist's model (died 1996) June 19 – John Heartfield, born Helmut Herzfeld, German graphic designer (died 1968) June 30 - Stanley Spencer, English painter (died 1959) August 15 – Iva Despić-Simonović, Croatian sculptor (died 1961) August 25 – Alberto Savinio, Italian writer, painter and composer (died 1952) September 22 – Alma Thomas, African American abstract expressionist painter (died 1978) October 7 – Charles R. Chickering, American illustrator (died 1970) October 11 – George Ault, American painter (died 1948) December 2 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (died 1969) December 5 – Alexander Rodchenko, Russian constructivist artist and designer (died 1956) December 9 – Mark Gertler, British painter (died 1939) Deaths January 27 – Jervis McEntee, American painter of the Hudson River School (born 1828) January 30 – Charles Joshua Chaplin, French painter and engraver (born 1825) January 31 – Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, French classicist painter (born 1815) February 9 – Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (born 1819) March 19 – Ernest Hoschedé, French businessman and collector of Impressionist paintings (born 1837) March 26 – Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, Dutch watercolorist (born 1822) March 29 – Georges Seurat, French Post-Impressionist painter (born 1859) April 5 – Daniel Cottier, Scottish-born artist and designer (born 1837) April 14 – Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve, Spanish painter, son of Juan Antonio Ribera (born 1815) May 12 – Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, British Pre-Raphaelite watercolourist (born 1818) May 16 – John Banvard, American panorama painter (born 1815) September 5 – Jules-Élie Delaunay, French academic painter (born 1828) September 6 – Elise Arnberg, Swedish miniaturist and photographer (born 1826) September 9 – William Theed, English sculptor (born 1804) September 11 – Théodule Ribot, French realist painter (born 1823) September 15 – John Steell, Scottish portrait sculptor (born 1804) October 30 – Truman Seymour, American soldier and painter (born 1824) References Category:Years of the 19th century in art Category:1890s in art