1892 in art

The year 1892 in art involved some significant events.

Events

 * February – Claude Monet begins painting his Rouen Cathedral series
 * c. February – Alfred Gilbert is commissioned to sculpt the tomb (with recumbent effigy) of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, in the Albert Memorial Chapel of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England; although not finished until 1928 it is substantially complete in 1898 as "the finest single example of late 19th-century sculpture in the British Isles"
 * March – James McNeill Whistler stages his major retrospective exhibition, Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet pieces at Goupil & Cie's London gallery, then moves to Paris
 * April 4 – Munich Secession
 * May – The Brotherhood of The Linked Ring is founded by Henry Peach Robinson in England to promote photography as a fine art
 * November – "The Munch Affair": Adelsteen Normann, on behalf of the Union of Berlin Artists, invites Edvard Munch to stage a one-man exhibition. However, his paintings evoke bitter controversy and after one week the exhibition is closed; Munch's paintings are moved to the Equitable Palast
 * Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Herbert MacNair are introduced to Margaret and Frances MacDonald in Glasgow
 * Il Codice Magliabechiano, a 16th century collection of brief biographies and notes on the works of Italian artists by "Anonimo Gaddiano", is first published

Awards

 * Legion of Honour (France) – James McNeill Whistler

Paintings



 * Ivan Aivazovsky – Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships
 * José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior – Leitura ("Reading")
 * John Henry Frederick Bacon – The Wedding Morning
 * Gustave Caillebotte
 * Nasturtiums
 * Portrait of the artist
 * Gustaf Cederström – Magnus Stenbock in Malmö
 * John Collier – Lilith
 * Thomas Eakins – The Concert Singer
 * James Ensor
 * Man of Sorrows (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp)
 * The Skate
 * Paul Gauguin
 * Aha Oe Feii?
 * Fatata te Miti ("By the Sea")
 * Spirit of the Dead Watching
 * Te Fare
 * When Will You Marry?
 * J. W. Godward
 * At The Garden Shrine, Pompeii
 * The Betrothed
 * Classical Beauty
 * Far Away Thoughts (two versions)
 * Leaning On The Balcony
 * The Playground
 * With Violets Wreathed And Robe Of Saffron Hue
 * Lydia Purdy Hess – Portrait of Miss E. H.
 * P. S. Krøyer – Summer Evening at Skagen. The Artist's Wife and Dog by the Shore
 * Sir Frederic Leighton – The Garden of the Hesperides
 * Isaac Levitan – Evening Bells
 * Maximilien Luce – Côte de la citadelle
 * Juan Luna
 * The Parisian Life
 * Peuple et Rois
 * Jacek Malczewski
 * Christmas Eve in Siberia
 * Self-portrait with palette
 * Francis Davis Millet
 * An Autumn Idyll
 * Between Two Fires
 * Albert Joseph Moore – Lightning and Light
 * Edvard Munch
 * Evening on Karl Johan
 * Inger in Black and Violet
 * August Strindberg
 * John Singer Sargent – Mrs. Hugh Hammersley
 * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
 * La Goulue arriving at the Moulin Rouge (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
 * Le Lit
 * At the Moulin Rouge
 * At the Moulin Rouge: two women waltzing
 * Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge
 * Posters for Aristide Bruant
 * Henry Scott Tuke – Mrs Florence Humphris
 * Félix Vallotton
 * Bathers on a Summer Evening (1892–93)
 * The Invalid
 * Édouard Vuillard – Self-Portrait

Sculptures

 * Charles E. Barber – United States Barber coinage
 * Jean-Léon Gérôme – Bellona
 * Felix Görling – Statue of Alexander von Humboldt (Chicago)
 * Richard Henry Park – John Plankinton statue
 * Jeronimo Sunol – Statue of Christopher Columbus (Central Park, New York City)

Other

 * The Diamond Trellis Egg is presented to Maria Feodorovna by her husband Alexander III of Russia

Births

 * 29 February – Augusta Savage, African American sculptor (died 1962).
 * 5 March - Dean Cornwell, American illustrator, painter, and muralist (died 1960)
 * 14 March – Charles Wheeler, English sculptor (died 1974).
 * 4 April – Italo Mus, Italian painter (died 1967)
 * 8 May – Luigi Del Bianco, Italian-born American sculptor (died 1969)
 * 12 May – Colin Gill, English war artist, muralist and portrait painter (died 1940).
 * 14 May – Marjorie Watson-Williams, English painter (died 1984).
 * 19 May – Wilhelm Heise, German painter (died 1965).
 * 30 May – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (died 1972).
 * 31 May – Michel Kikoine, painter (died 1968).
 * 30 June – Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, German painter (died 1966).
 * 15 July – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, "comparatists" and art critic (died 1940).
 * July 19 – Suzanne Malherbe, French illustrator and designer (died 1972).
 * July 24 – Marcel Gromaire, French painter (died 1971).
 * 7 August – Einar Forseth, Swedish artist.
 * 16 August – Otto Messmer, American animator (died 1983).
 * 11 October – Anton Räderscheidt, German painter (died 1970).
 * 16 October – Adolf Ziegler, German painter and politician (died 1959).
 * 23 November – Romain de Tirtoff, Russian-born French artist and designer (died 1990).
 * 7 December – Stuart Davis, American painter (died 1964).
 * Undated
 * Lang Jingshan, Chinese photographer (died 1995).
 * Veljko Stanojević, Serbian painter (died 1967).

Deaths

 * January 11 – Amanda Sidwall, Swedish painter and illustrator (born 1844)
 * January 14 – Alexander Jackson Davis, American architect and illustrator (born 1803)
 * January 15 – Randolph Rogers, American neoclassical sculptor (born 1825)
 * January 20 – Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, French engraver (born 1797)
 * February 27 – Louis Vuitton, French designer (born 1821)
 * March 3 – Fedor Solntsev, Russian painter and art historian (born 1801)
 * March 21 – Anthon van Rappard, Dutch painter (born 1858)
 * June 1 – Louis Janmot, French painter (born 1814)
 * October 5 – Albert Aurier, French Symbolist poet, art critic and painter (born 1865)
 * October 7 – Thomas Woolner, English sculptor and poet (born 1825)
 * October 29 – William Harnett, Irish American trompe l'oeil painter (born 1848)
 * December 9 – Ernst Klimt, Austrian mural painter (born 1864)
 * Undated
 * Walter Hood Fitch, British botanical artist (born 1817)
 * Serafino De Tivoli, Italian painter (born 1826)