1891 in art

Events

• 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.
• Sidney Paget produces his first illustrations for Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand Magazine.
• Félix Vallotton makes his first woodcuts.

Works

Henri Rousseau - Tiger in a Tropical Storm

• 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
• 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
• Benjamin Williams Leader - The Excavation of the Manchester Ship Canal: Eastham Cutting with Mount Manisty in the Distance
• Jan Matejko - Constitution of May 3, 1791
• Claude Monet
  • The Haystack Series
  • The Poplar Series
• Mikhail Nesterov - The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew
• Henrietta Rae - Miss Nightingale at Scutari (1854)
• Ilya Repin - Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
• Tom Roberts - A break away!
• Henri Rousseau - Tiger in a Tropical Storm
• Georges Seurat - completion of The Circus (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Moulin Rouge: La Goulue (color lithographic poster)
• J. W. Waterhouse - Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses

Births

• February 13 - Grant Wood, American painter (died 1942)
• April 2 - Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet (died 1976)
• April 7 - David Low, New Zealand-born editorial cartoonist (died 1963)
• June 8 - Audrey Munson, American actress and artist's model (died 1996)
• June 19 - John Heartfield, born Helmut Herzfeld, German graphic designer (died 1968)
• August 25 - Alberto Savinio, Italian writer, painter and composer (died 1952)
• October 7 - Charles R. Chickering, American illustrator (died 1970)
• October 11 - George Ault, painter (died 1948)
• December 2 - Otto Dix, painter and graphic artist (died 1969)
• December 9 - Mark Gertler, British painter (died 1939)
• date unknown - Franz Sedlacek, Austrian painter (died 1945)

Deaths

• January 27 - Jervis McEntee, painter of the Hudson River School (born 1828)
• January 30 - Charles Joshua Chaplin, painter and engraver (born 1825)
• January 31 - Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, French classicist painter (born 1815)
• February 9 - Johan Jongkind, painter (born 1819)
• March 26 - Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, watercolorist (born 1822)
• March 29 - Georges-Pierre Seurat, Post-Impressionist painter (born 1859)
• April 14 - Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve, Spanish painter, son of Juan Antonio Ribera (born 1815)
• May 12 - Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, Pre-Raphaelite watercolorist (born 1818)
• May 16 - John Banvard, American panorama painter (born 1815)
• September 5 - Elie Delaunay, painter (born 1828)
• September 9 - William Theed, sculptor (born 1804)
• September 11 - Théodule Ribot, realist painter (born 1823)
• October 30 - Truman Seymour, American soldier and painter (born 1824)