1899 in art

Events

• Camille Pissarro takes an apartment overlooking the Tuileries Garden in Paris and produces a series of paintings of the view.

Works

P. S. Krøyer - Summer evening by Skagen's beach

• Ottó Baditz - Women in the Prison
• Louis-Ernest Barrias - Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science
• Pierre Bonnard - Little Girl with a Cat
• Jules Dalou - Monument à Alphand (Paris)
• Thomas Eakins
  • Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams (first version)
  • Wrestlers
• Paul Gauguin - Two Tahitian Women
• William Harnett - Violin
• Winslow Homer - The Gulf Stream
• William Holman Hunt - The Miracle of the Holy Fire
• Peder Severin Krøyer - Summer evening by Skagen's beach: 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

Births

• January 20
  • Pierre Gandon, French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (d.1990).
  • Clarice Cliff, English ceramic artist (d.1972).
• February 15 - Lillian Disney, American artist and wife of Walt Disney (d.1997).
• February 22 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d.1986).
• April 27 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist and animator (d.1994).
• June 2 - Lotte Reiniger, German silhouette animator and film director (d.1981)
• August 19 - Bradley Walker Tomlin, painter (d. 1955)
• September 9 - Brassaï, Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker (d.1984)
• September 24 - William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (d.1970).
• December 25 - Raphael Soyer, Russian-born American painter (d.1987).

Deaths

• January 29 - Alfred Sisley, Impressionist painter (b. 1839)
• January 30 - Harry Bates, sculptor (b. 1850)
• March 27 - Myles Birket Foster, illustrator and watercolour painter (b. 1825)
• May 25 - Rosa Bonheur, painter (b. 1822)
• July 29 - Adolf Schreyer, German painter (b. 1828)
• August 22 - Caspar Buberl, sculptor (b. 1834)
• November 13 - José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, painter (b. 1850)
• December 7 - Juan Luna, painter (b. 1857)
• December 23 - Antoine Dominique Magaud, painter (b. 1817)
• date unknown - François Salle, French realist painter (b. 1839)