1895 in art

The year 1895 in art involved some significant events.

Events

 * January 1 – Alphonse Mucha's lithographed poster for the play Gismonda starring Sarah Bernhardt is posted in Paris. Bernhardt is so satisfied with its success that she gives Mucha a six-year contract.
 * April 13 – The Russian Museum is established in Saint Petersburg by Nicholas II.
 * April 30 – First Venice Biennale opens.
 * July 3 – Paul Gauguin leaves France to settle permanently in Polynesia.
 * October – Edvard Munch exhibits an extended series of his Love paintings in Christiania.
 * November – Paul Cézanne has his first solo exhibition, at the Paris gallery of Ambroise Vollard.
 * Munch (probably) writes "Could only have been painted by a madman" (Kan kun være malet af en gal Mand!) on his 1893 painting The Scream.
 * Bernard Berenson publishes Lorenzo Lotto: An Essay in Constructive Art Criticism.
 * P. H. Emerson publishes his last photographic book, Marsh Leaves.
 * M. H. de Young Memorial Museum opened in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

Works

 * Lawrence Alma-Tadema – A Coign of Vantage
 * Aubrey Beardsley – Venus Between Terminal Gods (ink drawing)
 * John Cassidy – Statue of Edward Colston (Bristol)
 * Paul Cézanne
 * The Boy in the Red Vest
 * Still Life with Cherub (approximate date)
 * Edgar Degas
 * After the Bath, Woman drying herself (probable latest date)
 * Photographic self-portrait
 * Thomas Eakins – Portrait of Maud Cook
 * Paul Gauguin – Oviri (stoneware)
 * Countess Feodora von Gleichen – Statue of Queen Victoria surrounded by children, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
 * J. W. Godward
 * Mischief And Repose
 * The Muse Erato At Her Lyre
 * Winslow Homer
 * Cannon Rock
 * Northeaster
 * George W. Joy
 * The Bayswater Omnibus
 * Joan of Arc
 * Sir Frederic Leighton
 * Candida
 * Flaming June
 * Lachrymae
 * Listener
 * The Maid with the Golden Hair
 * A Study
 * 'Twixt hope and fear
 * Isaac Levitan – Fresh Wind. Volga
 * Juan Luna
 * La Bulaqueña
 * Tampuhan
 * Henry Arthur McArdle – Battle of San Jacinto
 * Louis Maurer – The Great Royal Buffalo Hunt
 * Gustave Moreau – Jupiter and Semele
 * Edvard Munch
 * After the Fall of Man (Ashes)
 * Jealousy
 * Madonna
 * Self-Portrait with Cigarette
 * Self-Portrait with Skeleton Arm (lithograph)
 * Roderic O'Conor – La Jeune Bretonne
 * Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Gabrielle et Jean
 * Tom Roberts – Bailed Up
 * John Singer Sargent – Frederick Law Olmsted
 * Carlos Schwabe – La mort du fossoyeur ("The Death of the Gravedigger")
 * Valentin Serov – Portrait of Countess Varvara Musina-Pushkina
 * Marianne Stokes – St. Elizabeth of Hungary Spinning for the Poor
 * Théophile Steinlen – Les Chanteurs des Rues
 * Vardges Sureniants – Desecrated Shrine
 * Dorothy Tennant – L'Amour Blessé
 * James Tissot – La femme préhistorique
 * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Portrait of Oscar Wilde
 * Louis Tuaillon – Amazone zu Pferde (bronze equestrian statue, Berlin)
 * Laurits Tuxen – The Wedding of Tsar Nicholas II
 * John Henry Twachtman – The White Bridge (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
 * Félix Vallotton – Clair de lune ("Moonlight")
 * J. Alden Weir – The Ice Cutters
 * W. L. Wyllie – The Opening of Tower Bridge

Births

 * January 21 – Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (died 1972)
 * February 6 – Franz Radziwill, German painter (died 1983)
 * March 1 – Ogura Yuki, Japanese nihonga painter (died 2000)
 * March 4 – Mikuláš Galanda, Slovak modernist painter and illustrator (died 1938)
 * March 29 – Anne Redpath, Scottish still life painter (died 1965)
 * April 7
 * Jim Ede, English art collector (died 1990)
 * John Bernard Flannagan, American sculptor (suicide 1942)
 * May 8 – Georg Muche, German painter (died 1987)
 * June 3 – Frank McKelvey, Irish painter (died 1974)
 * June 5 – William Roberts, British painter (died 1980)
 * June 30 – Heinz Warneke, German-born American sculptor (died 1983)
 * July 2 – Gen Paul, French painter and engraver (died 1975)
 * July 19 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (died 1953)
 * August 7 – Alain Saint-Ogan, French comics author and artist (died 1974)
 * August 13 – Gluck, born Hannah Gluckstein, English painter (died 1978)
 * August 17 – Talbert Abrams, American "father of aerial photography" (died 1990)
 * November 1 – David Jones, British poet and painter (died 1974)
 * December 26 – Jefto Perić, Serbian painter (died 1967)
 * date unknown
 * Ilija Bašičević, Serbian painter and father of painter-sculptor Dimitrije Bašičević (died 1972)
 * Marguerite Huré, French stained glass artist (died 1967)

Deaths

 * January 5 – Władysław Podkowiński, Polish painter and illustrator (born 1866)
 * February 1 – Mary Thornycroft, English sculptor (born 1809)
 * February 8 – Jean-François Portaels, Belgian painter (born 1818)
 * March 2 – Berthe Morisot, French Impressionist painter (born 1841)
 * March 6 – Edwin Forbes, American landscape painter and etcher (born 1839)
 * April 19 – Sir George Scharf, English art critic (born 1820)
 * April 21 – Arthur Gilbert, English landscape painter (born 1819)
 * May 24 – Joseph Quinaux, Belgian landscape painter (born 1822)
 * September 9 – Gaetano Milanesi, Italian art historian (born 1813)
 * September 21 – Silvestro Lega, Italian realist painter (born 1826)
 * November 23 – Mauritz de Haas, Dutch-American marine painter (born 1832)