1899 in art

The year 1899 in art involved some significant events.

Events

 * December 15 – Glasgow School of Art opens its new building, the most notable work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
 * Camille Pissarro takes an apartment overlooking the Tuileries Garden in Paris and produces a series of paintings of the view.

Works



 * José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior – Saudade
 * Wilhelm Amberg – Lost in Thoughts (approx. date)
 * Ottó Baditz – Women in the Prison
 * Louis-Ernest Barrias – Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science
 * George Edwin Bissell – Statue of Chester A. Arthur (bronze, New York City)
 * Pierre Bonnard – Little Girl with a Cat
 * Léon Bonnat – Marie Georgine de Ligne
 * Jules Dalou – Monument à Alphand (Paris)
 * Thomas Eakins
 * Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams (first version)
 * Wrestlers
 * Jean Leon Gerome Ferris – Signing the Mayflower Compact
 * Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter – Equestrian statue of Ulysses S. Grant
 * Paul Gauguin – Two Tahitian Women
 * J. W. Godward
 * The Bouquet
 * The Delphic Oracle
 * The Mirror
 * The Signal
 * 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
 * Mykola Pymonenko – A Victim of Fanaticism
 * Lionel Royer -Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar
 * John Singer Sargent – The Wyndham Sisters
 * Vardges Sureniants – After the Massacre
 * Leon Wyczółkowski – Irena Solska
 * W. L. Wyllie – The Battle of the Nile

Births

 * January 20
 * Pierre Gandon, French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (died 1990)
 * Clarice Cliff, English ceramic artist (died 1972)
 * February 15
 * Lillian Disney, American artist and wife of Walt Disney (died 1997)
 * Grethe Jürgens, German painter (died 1981)
 * February 22 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (died 1986)
 * March 20 – G. David Thompson, American industrialist and collector of modern art (died 1965)
 * April 3 – Borislav Bogdanović, Serbian portraitist (died 1970)
 * April 27 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist and animator (died 1994)
 * May 22
 * Kosta Hakman, Serbian painter (died 1961)
 * Pan Yuliang, Chinese-born painter (died 1977)
 * June 2 – Lotte Reiniger, German silhouette animator and film director (died 1981)
 * June 12 – Anni Albers, born Annelise Fleischmann, German-born textile artist and printmaker (died 1994)
 * July 3 – Else Halling, Norwegian tapestry weaver (died 1987)
 * July 16 – Božidar Jakac, Slovene painter and graphic artist (died 1989)
 * July (unknown day) - Isaac Frenkel Frenel, Israeli French painter and sculptor (died 1981)
 * August 10 – Margarete Heymann, German-born ceramic artist (died 1990)
 * August 19 – Bradley Walker Tomlin, American painter (died 1955)
 * September 9 – Brassaï, Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker (died 1984)
 * September 24 – William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (died 1970)
 * December 4 – Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, German avant-garde painter (euthanized 1940)
 * December 25 – Raphael Soyer, Russian-born American painter (died 1987)

Deaths

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