Events

• May - The Brotherhood of The Linked Ring is founded by Henry Peach Robinson in England to promote photography as a fine art.
• Claude Monet beegins painting his Rouen Cathedral series.
• Munich Secession.

Awards

Works of art

Paintings

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• Ivan Aivazovsky - Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships
• John Collier - Lilith
• Thomas Eakins - The Concert Singer
• James Ensor - Man of Sorrows (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp)
• Paul Gauguin - Spirit of the Dead Watching
• Sir Frederic Leighton - The Garden of the Hesperides
• Juan Luna
  • The Parisian Life
  • Peuple et Rois
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • La Goulue arriving at the Moulin Rouge (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
  • At the Moulin Rouge
  • At the Moulin Rouge: two women waltzing
  • Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge
  • Posters for Aristide Bruant
• douard Vuillard - Self-Portrait

Sculptures

• Charles E. Barber - United States Barber coinage
• Jean-L on G r me - Bellona

Other

Births

• 13 February - Grant Wood, painter (d.1942).
• 14 May - Marjorie Watson-Williams, English painter (d.1984).
• 30 May - Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d.1972).
• 31 May - Michel Kikoine, painter (d.1968).
• 15 July - Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, "comparatists" and art critic (d.1940).
• July 19 - Suzanne Malherbe, French illustrator and designer (d.1972)
• July 24 - Marcel Gromaire, French painter (d.1971)
• 7 August - Einar Forseth, Swedish artist.
• 16 August - Otto Messmer, American animator (d.1983).
• 11 October - Anton R derscheidt, German painter (d.1970).
• 16 October - Adolf Ziegler, German painter and politician (d.1959).
• 23 November - Romain de Tirtoff, Russian-born French artist and designer (d.1990).
• 7 December - Stuart Davis, painter (d.1964).

Deaths

• January 14 - Alexander Jackson Davis, architect, illustrator (b. 1803)
• February 27 - Louis Vuitton, designer (b. 1821)
• June 1 - Louis Janmot, painter (b. 1814)
• October 5 - Albert Aurier, Symbolist poet, art critic and painter (b. 1865)
• October 7 - Thomas Woolner, English sculptor and poet (b. 1825)
• October 29 - William Harnett, trompe l'oeil painter (b. 1848)
• date unknown
  • John Lewis Brown, French painter (b. 1829)
  • Walter Hood Fitch, botanical artist (b. 1817)
  • Serafino De Tivoli, painter (b. 1826)

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