The year 1892 in art involved some significant events.
Events February – Claude Monet begins painting his Rouen Cathedral series c. February – Alfred Gilbert is commissioned to sculpt the tomb (with recumbent effigy) of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, in the Albert Memorial Chapel of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England; although not finished until 1928 it is substantially complete in 1898 as "the finest single example of late 19th-century sculpture in the British Isles" March – James McNeill Whistler stages his major retrospective exhibition, Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet pieces at Goupil & Cie's London gallery, then moves to Paris April 4 – Munich Secession May The Brotherhood of The Linked Ring is founded by Henry Peach Robinson in England to promote photography as a fine art Claude-Charles Bourgonnier is barred from exhibiting art at the Paris Salon for a two-year period after tearing up one of his own paintings while it is on display November – "The Munch Affair": Adelsteen Normann, on behalf of the Union of Berlin Artists, invites Edvard Munch to stage a one-man exhibition. However, his paintings evoke bitter controversy and after one week the exhibition is closed; Munch's paintings are moved to the Equitable Palast Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Herbert MacNair are introduced to Margaret and Frances MacDonald in Glasgow Il Codice Magliabechiano, a 16th century collection of brief biographies and notes on the works of Italian artists by "Anonimo Gaddiano", is first published
Awards Legion of Honour (France) – James McNeill Whistler
Works of art
Paintings
Ivan Aivazovsky – Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships Emmanuel Benner – A Family in the Stone Age Almeida Júnior – Leitura ("Reading") John Henry Frederick Bacon – The Wedding Morning Gustave Caillebotte Nasturtiums Portrait of the artist Gustaf Cederström – Magnus Stenbock in Malmö John Collier – Lilith Thomas Eakins – The Concert Singer James Ensor Man of Sorrows (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp) The Skate Paul Gauguin Aha Oe Feii? ’’Arearea’’ Fatata te Miti ("By the Sea") Spirit of the Dead Watching Te Fare ’’We Shall Not Go to Marker Today’’ When Will You Marry? J. W. Godward At The Garden Shrine, Pompeii The Betrothed Classical Beauty Far Away Thoughts (two versions) Leaning On The Balcony The Playground With Violets Wreathed And Robe Of Saffron Hue Lydia Purdy Hess – Portrait of Miss E. H. P. S. Krøyer – Summer Evening at Skagen. The Artist's Wife and Dog by the Shore Evert Larock – The Idiot Sir Frederic Leighton – The Garden of the Hesperides Isaac Levitan – Evening Bells Maximilien Luce – Côte de la citadelle Juan Luna The Parisian Life Peuple et Rois Jacek Malczewski Christmas Eve in Siberia Self-portrait with palette John Everett Millais – Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Windhttps://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artwork/769/blow-blow-thou-winter-wind Francis Davis Millet An Autumn Idyll Between Two Fireshttp://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/millet-between-two-fires-n01611 Between Two Fires Albert Joseph Moore – Lightning and Light Edvard Munch Evening on Karl Johan Inger in Black and Violet John Pettie – Bonnie Prince Charlie Entering the Ballroom at Holyroodhouse August Strindberg John Singer Sargent – Mrs. Hugh Hammersley Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec La Goulue arriving at the Moulin Rouge (Museum of Modern Art, New York) Le Lit At the Moulin Rouge At the Moulin Rouge: two women waltzing Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge Posters for Aristide Bruant Henry Scott Tuke – Mrs Florence Humphris Félix Vallotton Bathers on a Summer Evening (1892–93) The Invalid Édouard Vuillard – Self-Portrait
Sculptures
Charles E. Barber – United States Barber coinage Jean-Léon Gérôme – Bellona Felix Görling – Statue of Alexander von Humboldt (Chicago) Richard Henry Park – John Plankinton statue Jeronimo Sunol – Statue of Christopher Columbus (Central Park, New York City)
Other The Diamond Trellis Egg is presented to Maria Feodorovna by her husband Alexander III of Russia
Births 29 February – Augusta Savage, African American sculptor (died 1962). 5 March - Dean Cornwell, American illustrator, painter, and muralist (died 1960) 14 March – Charles Wheeler, English sculptor (died 1974). 4 April – Italo Mus, Italian painter (died 1967) 8 May – Luigi Del Bianco, Italian-born American sculptor (died 1969) 12 May – Colin Gill, English war artist, muralist and portrait painter (died 1940). 14 May – Marjorie Watson-Williams, English painter (died 1984). 19 May – Wilhelm Heise, German painter (died 1965). 30 May – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (died 1972). 31 May – Michel Kikoine, painter (died 1968). 30 June – Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, German painter (died 1966). 15 July – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, "comparatists" and art critic (died 1940). July 19 – Suzanne Malherbe, French illustrator and designer (died 1972). July 24 – Marcel Gromaire, French painter (died 1971). 7 August – Einar Forseth, Swedish artist. 16 August – Otto Messmer, American animator (died 1983). 11 October – Anton Räderscheidt, German painter (died 1970). 16 October – Adolf Ziegler, German painter and politician (died 1959). 23 November – Romain de Tirtoff, Russian-born French artist and designer (died 1990). 7 December – Stuart Davis, American painter (died 1964). Undated Lang Jingshan, Chinese photographer (died 1995). Veljko Stanojević, Serbian painter (died 1967).
Deaths January 11 – Amanda Sidwall, Swedish painter and illustrator (born 1844) January 14 – Alexander Jackson Davis, American architect and illustrator (born 1803) January 15 – Randolph Rogers, American neoclassical sculptor (born 1825) January 20 – Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, French engraver (born 1797) February 27 – Louis Vuitton, French designer (born 1821) March 3 – Fedor Solntsev, Russian painter and art historian (born 1801) March 21 – Anthon van Rappard, Dutch painter (born 1858) June 1 – Louis Janmot, French painter (born 1814) October 5 – Albert Aurier, French Symbolist poet, art critic and painter (born 1865) October 7 – Thomas Woolner, English sculptor and poet (born 1825) October 29 – William Harnett, Irish American trompe l'oeil painter (born 1848) December 9 – Ernst Klimt, Austrian mural painter (born 1864) Undated Walter Hood Fitch, British botanical artist (born 1817) Serafino De Tivoli, Italian painter (born 1826)
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