1899 in art

List of years in Art

Events

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Works

*Pierre Bonnard - "Little Girl with a Cat"
*Jules Dalou - "Monument à Alphand"
*William Harnett - "Violin"
*Peder Severin Krøyer - "Summer evening by Skagen's beach. Artist and his wife"
*Constantin Meunier - "The Horse at the Pond" (Brussels)
*John F. Peto - "Still life with Mug, pipe and book"
*Maurice Prendergast - "Splash of Sunshine and Rain"

Births

*20 January - Pierre Gandon, French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (d.1990).
*15 February - Lillian Disney, American artist and wife of Walt Disney (d.1997).
*22 February - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d.1986).
*27 April - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist and animator (d.1994).
*2 June - Lotte Reiniger, German silhouette animator and film director (d.1981).
*9 September - Brassaï, Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker (d.1984).
*23 September - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American artist (d.1988).
*24 September - William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (d.1970).

Deaths

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