Editing 1896 in art (section)

==Events==
* [[January 24]] – Painter [[Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton|Sir Frederic Leighton]] is created 1st Baron Leighton in the [[peerage of the United Kingdom]] one day before his death in London of ''[[angina pectoris]]''.
* February – [[Edvard Munch]] moves to Paris and concentrates on printmaking.
* December – [[Walter Crane]] publishes ''[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40250/40250-h/40250-h.htm 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 City|New York]].
* At [[Giverny]] [[Claude Monet]] begins painting his ''Mornings on the Seine'' series, which will continue through [[1897 in art|1897]].
* Art student [[Henri Matisse]] visits Australian painter [[John Russell (Australian artist)|John Russell]] on the island of [[Belle Île]] off the coast of [[Brittany]] and is introduced to [[Impressionism]] and to the work of [[Vincent van Gogh]].
* Interior design gallery ''Maison de l'[[Art Nouveau]]'' opens in Paris.
* [[Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest)|Museum of Applied Arts]], [[Budapest]], designed by [[Ödön Lechner]], is completed.
* [[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.