1896 in art

Events

• January 24 - Painter Sir Frederic Leighton is created 1st Baron Leighton in the peerage of the United Kingdom one day before his death.
• A bout of typhoid fever puts an end to Maurice de Vlaminck's career as a cyclist.
• William Merritt Chase founds Parsons The New School for Design as the Chase School of Art in Greenwich Village, New York.
• At Giverny Claude Monet begins painting his Mornings on the Seine series, which will continue through 1897.
• Bernard Berenson publishes Florentine Painters of the Renaissance.

Works

Pissarro - Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather

• Harry Bates - equestrian statue of Lord Roberts
• Alfred Boucher - Volubilis (sculpture)
• Paul Dubois - Baptism of Clovis (sculpture in front of Reims Cathedral)
• Thomas Eakins - The Pianist
• Julian Fałat - Self-portrait
• Akseli Gallen-Kallela - The Defense of the Sampo
• Niels Hansen Jacobsen - Trold, der vejrer kristenblod (sculpture)
• Juan Luna - Ecce Homo
• Frederick McCubbin - On the wallaby track
• Camille Pissarro - Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather
• Hugo Simberg - The Garden of Death (watercolor and gouache, Ateneum, Helsinki)

Births

• January 4 - André Masson, French artist (died 1987)
• April 14 - Alfredo Volpi, Brazilian Modernist painter (died 1988)
• July 2
  • Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animation director and cartoonist (died 1984)
  • Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (died 1947)
• July 13 - Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (died 1992)
• August 4 - José Fioravanti, Argentine monumental sculptor (died 1977)
• August 14 - Eric Grate, Swedish sculptor, painter and graphics artist (died 1983)
• August 15 - Paul Outerbridge, photographer (died 1958)
• September 24 - Camilo Mori, Chilean painter (died 1973)

Deaths

• January 4 - Henri Alfred Jacquemart, sculptor and animalier (born 1824)
• January 25 - Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, painter and sculptor (born 1830)
• February 5 - Jean-Auguste Barre, French sculptor (born 1811)
• April 16 - Viktor Oskar Tilgner, sculptor (born 1844)
• May 3 - Alfred William Hunt, painter (born 1830)
• May 5 - Jacob Fjelde, sculptor (born 1855)
• July 7 - Erdmann Encke, sculptor (born 1843)
• August 13 - Sir John Everett Millais, pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1829)
• August 14 - Olin Levi Warner, sculptor (born 1844)