1891 in art

The year 1891 in art involved some significant events.

Events

 * 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



 * 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 – St. Elizabeth of Hungary
 * 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
 * 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
 * Claude Monet
 * The Haystack Series
 * The Poplar Series
 * Edvard Munch – Melancholy (first version)
 * Mikhail Nesterov – The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew
 * 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)
 * 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 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)