1893 in art

The year 1893 in art involved some significant events.

Events

 * February – Grafton Galleries open in London.
 * April – The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art is first published in London by Charles Holme with Joseph Gleeson White as editor and a cover design by Aubrey Beardsley.
 * May 1 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA, with a Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking the man-made lake. The first United States commemorative postage stamps are issued for the Exposition. Among other art exhibits are two bronze calves by Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen.
 * June 14 – Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford, designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford.
 * June 29 – Unveiling of the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain at Piccadilly Circus in London, with a gilded aluminium statue of Anteros, designed by Alfred Gilbert and cast by Morris Singer.
 * Ford Madox Brown completes painting The Manchester Murals in Manchester Town Hall (England).
 * The National Sculpture Society is founded in the United States.
 * Alois Riegl's Stilfragen: Grundlegungen zu einer Geschichte der Ornamentik is published in Berlin.
 * Henri Rousseau gives up his job as a Paris toll collector and moves to a studio in Montparnasse where he lives and paints full-time.
 * A 16th century Ardabil Carpet from Persia enters the collection of the South Kensington Museum in London.

Exhibitions

 * December – Unter den Linden in Berlin holds an exhibition of Edvard Munch's work, including six paintings entitled Study for a Series: Love, beginning his Frieze of Life cycle.

Works

 * Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Unconscious Rivals
 * Léon Bakst – Self-portrait
 * Charles Burton Barber – A Special Pleader
 * Aubrey Beardsley – Illustrations to Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (J. M. Dent)
 * Henrique Bernardelli – Messalini
 * Olga Boznańska – Self-portrait
 * Edgar Bundy – Antonio Stradivari at work in his studio
 * Mary Cassatt – The Child's Bath
 * Paul Cézanne – Basket of Apples
 * Henri-Edmond Cross – The Evening Air (approximate date)
 * Ernesto de la Cárcova – Without Bread or Work
 * Frank Dicksee – The Funeral of a Viking
 * Albert Edelfelt
 * Larin Paraske
 * Two women with laundry
 * Paul Gauguin
 * Otahi
 * Portrait of the artist in a hat
 * J. W. Godward
 * A Priestess (nude version)
 * Reflections
 * Yes Or No
 * Félix Resurrección Hidalgo – Adios del Sol
 * Winslow Homer – The Fox Hunt
 * Paul Jamin – Brennus and His Share of the Spoils
 * Eero Järnefelt
 * Larin Paraske
 * Under the Yoke (Burning the Brushwood) (Raatajat rahanalaiset)
 * Christian Krohg – Leiv Eirikson Discovering America
 * Peder Severin Krøyer – Summer Evening on Skagen's Southern Beach (Sommeraften på Skagen Sønderstrand med Anna Ancher og Marie Krøyer)
 * Gaston La Touche – L'Ennui
 * Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne – Statue of her mother Queen Victoria, in Kensington Gardens, London
 * Hendrik Willem Mesdag – Bomschuiten in the surf, ready for departure
 * Albert Joseph Moore
 * An Idyll
 * The Loves of the Winds and the Seasons
 * Edvard Munch
 * Death in the Sickroom
 * The Scream
 * Starry Night
 * Władysław Podkowiński – Frenzy of Exultations
 * Odilon Redon – Sita (pastel)
 * Augustus Saint-Gaudens – Diana (bronze cast)
 * Alfred Stieglitz – photographs
 * The Terminal
 * Winter – Fifth Avenue
 * Franz Stuck – The Sin
 * Joseph-Noël Sylvestre – François Rude working on the Arc de Triomphe
 * Abbott Handerson Thayer – The Virgin
 * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Jane Avril (poster)
 * Henry Scott Tuke – August Blue
 * Raja Ravi Varma – There Comes Papa
 * Stanisław Wyspiański – Self-portrait

January to June

 * January 13 – Chaïm Soutine, painter (died 1943)
 * February 2 – Sreten Stojanović, Serbian sculptor (died 1960).
 * February 10 – Walter Hofer, German art dealer (died c. 1971)
 * March 3
 * Ivon Hitchens, English painter (died 1979)
 * Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (died 1998)
 * March 11 – Wanda Gag, children's author and artist (died 1946)
 * March 22 – Bernard Fleetwood-Walker, English artist (died 1965)
 * March 29 – Dora Carrington, painter and designer (died 1932)
 * April 7 – Almada Negreiros, Portuguese artist (died 1970)
 * April 9 – Charles E. Burchfield, American scene painter (died 1967)
 * April 11 – John Nash, English painter, illustrator, and engraver (died 1977)
 * April 20 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (died 1983)
 * May 16 – Stella Bowen, Australian painter (died 1947)
 * May 31 – Janet Sobel, born Jennie Olechovsky, Ukrainian-born American Abstract Expressionist pioneer of drip painting (died 1968)

July to December

 * July 3 – Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer (died 1976)
 * July 8 – Abraham Rattner, American painter and camouflage specialist (died 1978)
 * July 26 – George Grosz, German painter and draftsman (died 1959)
 * September 2 – Mary Cecil Allen, Australian-born painter (died 1962)
 * September 15 – Rene Paul Chambellan, American sculptor (died 1955)
 * October 1 – Marianne Brandt, German painter, sculptor and designer (died 1983)
 * October 8 – Orovida Camille Pissarro, English painter and etcher (died 1968)
 * October 9 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (died 1945)
 * November 19 – Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, British intelligence officer, mountaineer and painter (died 1986)
 * December – Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (died 1979)
 * December 10 – Russell Johnson, American cartoonist (died 1995)
 * December 29 – Berthold Bartosch, Bohemian animator (died 1968)

Date unknown

 * Otto Eppers, American cartoonist (died 1955)
 * Henry Matthew Talintyre, British comic strip artist (died 1962)

Deaths

 * January 30 – Prince Grigory Gagarin, Russian soldier and painter (born 1811)
 * February 21 – John Pettie, Scottish-born painter (born 1839)
 * March 16 – William H. Illingworth, American photographer (born 1844)
 * April 6 – George Vicat Cole, English painter (born 1833)
 * April 18 – Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, Polish painter (born 1857)
 * May 8 – Adèle Kindt, Belgian portrait and genre painter (born 1804)
 * August 10 – Robert Cornelius, American pioneer of photography (born 1809)
 * September 25 – Albert Joseph Moore, English painter (born 1841)
 * September 28 – Annie Feray Mutrie, British painter (born 1826)
 * October 6 – Ford Madox Brown, French-born English painter (born 1821)
 * October 10 – Barthélemy Menn, Swiss plein air painter and draughtsman (born 1811)
 * October 29 – Gustav Mützel, German animal painter (born 1839)
 * December 10 – Josephine Calamatta, French painter and engraver (born 1817)
 * December 23 – Gunnar Berg, Norwegian painter (born 1863)