1896 in art

Events

• January 24 - Painter Sir Frederic Leighton is created 1st Baron Leighton in the peerage of the United Kingdom one day before his death.
• February - Edvard Munch moves to Paris and concentrates on printmaking.
• December - Walter Crane publishes Of The Decorative Illustration of Books, Old and New (printed by the Chiswick Press).
• A bout of typhoid fever puts an end to Maurice de Vlaminck's career as a cyclist.
• William Merritt Chase founds Parsons The New School for Design as the Chase School of Art in Greenwich Village, New York.
• At Giverny Claude Monet begins painting his Mornings on the Seine series, which will continue through 1897.
• Interior design gallery Maison de l'Art Nouveau opens in Paris.
• Max Beerbohm publishes Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen in London, his first collection of drawings.
• Bernard Berenson publishes Florentine Painters of the Renaissance.
• The Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers is founded.
• Hubert von Herkomer is made a knight in the United Kingdom.

Works

Pissarro - Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather

• Harry Bates - equestrian statue of Lord Roberts
• Aubrey Beardsley - Illustrations to Pope's The Rape of the Lock
• Alfred Boucher - Volubilis (sculpture)
• Lovis Corinth - Self-portrait with skeleton
• Paul Dubois - Baptism of Clovis (sculpture in front of Reims Cathedral)
• Thomas Eakins - The Pianist
• Julian Fałat - Self-portrait with palette
• J. W. Godward
  • Campaspe
  • He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
• Akseli Gallen-Kallela - The Defense of the Sampo
• Niels Hansen Jacobsen - Trold, der vejrer kristenblod (sculpture)
• Fernand Khnopff
  • The Caress of the Sphinx
  • Posthumous portrait of Marguerite Landuyt
• Juan Luna - Ecce Homo
• Frederick McCubbin - On the wallaby track
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Stencilled friezes for Catherine Cranston's Buchanan Street tearooms, Glasgow
• Camille Pissarro - Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather
• Félicien Rops - Pornocrates (aquatint)
• François-Léon Sicard - Le Bon Samaritain (sculpture)
• Hugo Simberg - The Garden of Death (watercolor and gouache, Ateneum, Helsinki)
• Viktor Vasnetsov
  • Sirin and Alkonost – Birds of Joy and Sorrow
  • The Temptation (fresco, St Volodymyr's Cathedral, Kiev)
• J. W. Waterhouse - Hylas and the Nymphs
• James McNeill Whistler
  • Savoy Pigeons (lithograph)
  • The Thames (lithotint)
  • Waterloo Bridge from the Savoy
  • Westminster from the Savoy (watercolor)
• Anders Zorn - Self-portrait with model

Births

• January 4 - André Masson, French artist (died 1987)
• January 20 - Charles E. Brown, English aviation photographer (died 1982)
• April 14 - Alfredo Volpi, Brazilian Modernist painter (died 1988)
• July 2
  • Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animation director and cartoonist (died 1984)
  • Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (died 1947)
• July 13 - Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (died 1992)
• August 4 - José Fioravanti, Argentine monumental sculptor (died 1977)
• August 14 - Eric Grate, Swedish sculptor, painter and graphics artist (died 1983)
• August 15 - Paul Outerbridge, photographer (died 1958)
• September 24 - Camilo Mori, Chilean painter (died 1973)
• Date unknown - Sava Šumanović, Serbian painter (d. 1942)

Deaths

• January 4 - Henri Alfred Jacquemart, sculptor and animalier (born 1824)
• January 25 - Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, painter and sculptor (born 1830)
• February 5 - Jean-Auguste Barre, French sculptor (born 1811)
• April 16 - Viktor Oskar Tilgner, sculptor (born 1844)
• May 3 - Alfred William Hunt, painter (born 1830)
• May 5 - Jacob Fjelde, sculptor (born 1855)
• July 7 - Erdmann Encke, sculptor (born 1843)
• August 13 - Sir John Everett Millais, pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1829)
• August 14 - Olin Levi Warner, sculptor (born 1844)
• November 9 - Napoleon Sarony, Canadian American portrait photographer (born 1821)