1892 in art

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Overview of the events of 1892 in art

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The year 1892 in art involved some significant events.

## Events

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* 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"[1]
* 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[2]
* 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[3]
* 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

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* Legion of Honour (France) – James McNeill Whistler

## Works of art

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### Paintings

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Poster by Toulouse-Lautrec

* Ivan Aivazovsky – Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships
* Emmanuel Benner – A Family in the Stone Age
* José Ferraz de 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[4]
* ’’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
* Francis Davis Millet
* An Autumn Idyll
* Between Two Fires
* Albert Joseph Moore – Lightning and Light
* Edvard Munch
* Evening on Karl Johan
* Inger in Black and Violet
* 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

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See also: Category:1892 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

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* The Diamond Trellis Egg is presented to Maria Feodorovna by her husband Alexander III of Russia

## Births

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* 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

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* 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)

## References

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1. ^ Roskill, Mark (1968). "Alfred Gilbert's Monument to the Duke of Clarence: A Study in the Sources of Later Victorian Sculpture". The Burlington Magazine. 110: 699–704.
2. ^ "Sous-comité". Compte-rendu des travaux de la Société des artistes français. Société des Artistes Français. 2 May 1892.
3. ^ Prideaux, Sue (2005). Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 135–7. ISBN 978-0-300-12401-9.
4. ^ "VIDEO: How Tahiti transformed Gauguin". 15 February 2017.

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