Editing 1896 in art

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The year '''1896 in art''' involved some significant events.

==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.

==Works==
[[File:Pissarro - Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Camille Pissarro|Pissarro]] – ''[[Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather]]'']]
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* [[Nels N. Alling]] – [[Statue of George Washington (Perth Amboy, New Jersey)|Statue of George Washington]] (terra cotta, Market Square, [[Perth Amboy, New Jersey]])
* [[Michael Ancher]] – ''[[:File:Michael Ancher - A stroll on the beach - Google Art Project.jpg|A stroll on the beach]]''
* [[Harry Bates (sculptor)|Harry Bates]] – equestrian statue of [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts|Lord Roberts]]
* [[Aubrey Beardsley]] – Illustrations to [[Alexander Pope|Pope]]'s ''[[The Rape of the Lock]]''
* [[Alfred Boucher]] – ''[[Volubilis (sculptures)|Volubilis]]'' (sculpture)
* [[Edward Burne-Jones]] (illustrations) and [[William Morris]] (type design and decoration) – ''The Works of [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], now newly imprinted'' (Kelmscott Press edition)
* [[Lovis Corinth]] – ''[[:File:Lovis Corinth 010.jpg|Self-portrait with skeleton]]''
* [[Edgar Degas]] – ''[[Bathers]]'' (completed)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/5226/Bathers/|title = Barnes Collection Online — Edgar Degas: Bathers}}</ref>
* [[Paul Dubois (sculptor)|Paul Dubois]] – ''[[:File:Bateme de Clovis par St Remy-edit.jpg|Baptism of Clovis]]'' (sculpture in front of [[Reims Cathedral]])
* [[Thomas Eakins]] – ''[[The Pianist (painting)|The Pianist]]''
* [[Julian Fałat]] – ''[[:File:FalatJulian.AutoportretZPaleta.1896.ws.jpg|Self-portrait with palette]]''
* [[Luke Fildes]] – ''[[:File:Sir Frederick Treves, Bt by Sir (Samuel) Luke Fildes.jpg|Frederick Treves]]''
* [[Paul Gauguin]]
** ''[http://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-gauguin/baby-nativity-of-tahitian-christ-1896 Bé bé]''
** ''[[Te tamari no atua]]''
** ''[[:File:Paul Gauguin 110.jpg|Self-portrait "près du Golgotha"]]''
** ''[[:File:Gauguin- Selbstbildnis dem Freund Daniel gewidmet -1896.jpg|Self-portrait for my friend Daniel]]''
** ''[[:File:Paul Gauguin - Oyez Hui Iesu (Christ on the Cross).jpg|Oyez Hui Iesu]]'' (carving)
* [[John William Godward|J. W. Godward]]
** ''Campaspe''
** ''He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not''
* [[Akseli Gallen-Kallela]] – ''[[The Defense of the Sampo]]''
* [[Niels Hansen Jacobsen]] – ''[[Trold, der vejrer kristenblod]]'' (sculpture)
* [[Paja Jovanović]] – ''[[Migration of the Serbs (painting)|Migration of the Serbs]]''
* [[Fernand Khnopff]]
** ''[[Caress of the Sphinx]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://soren.faculty.arizona.edu/content/classics-art-300-lectures-18-19|title = Classics-Art 300 Lectures 18-19 &#124; Dr. David Soren, Regents Professor}}</ref>
** ''Posthumous portrait of Marguerite Landuyt''
* [[Maximilien Luce]]
** ''[[:File:Maximilien Luce - Le bon samaritain.jpg|Le bon samaritain]]''
** ''[[:File:Maximilien Luce Scène de Rue à Paris 1896.jpg|Scène de rue à Paris]]''
* [[Juan Luna]] – ''[[Ecce Homo (Juan Luna)|Ecce Homo]]''
* [[Frederick McCubbin]] – ''[[On the wallaby track]]''
* [[Charles Rennie Mackintosh]]  – [[Stencil]]led [[frieze]]s for [[Catherine Cranston]]'s [[Buchanan Street]] tearooms, [[Glasgow]]
* [[Konstantin Makovsky]] – ''[[:File:Appeal of Minin.jpg|Appeal of Kuzma Minin]]''
* [[Arturo Michelena]] – ''[[:File:Miranda en la Carraca by Arturo Michelena.jpg|Miranda en la Carraca]]''
* [[Mihály Munkácsy]] – ''[[:File:Munkácsy Ecce Homo part.JPG|Ecce homo]]''
* [[Pablo Picasso]] – ''[http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/pablo-picasso/first-communion-1896 First Communion]''
* [[Camille Pissarro]] – ''[[Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather]]''
*[[J. Massey Rhind]] – [[Erskine Memorial Fountain]]
* [[Félicien Rops]] – ''[[:File:Félicien Rops 001.jpg|Pornocrates]]'' ([[aquatint]])
* [[Giovanni Segantini]] – ''[[Love at the Fountain of Life]]''
* [[François-Léon Sicard]] – ''[[:File:Good Samaritan Sicard Tuileries.jpg|Le Bon Samaritain]]'' (sculpture)
* [[Hugo Simberg]] – ''[[The Garden of Death]]'' ([[watercolor]] and [[gouache]], [[Ateneum]], [[Helsinki]])
* [[Arthur Streeton]] – ''[[The purple noon’s transparent might]]''
* [[Viktor Vasnetsov]]
** ''[[:File:Vasnetsov Sirin Alkonost.jpg|Sirin and Alkonost – Birds of Joy and Sorrow]]''
** ''[[:File:Vasnetsov Temptation.jpg|The Temptation]]'' ([[fresco]], [[St Volodymyr's Cathedral]], [[Kiev]])
* [[J. W. Waterhouse]]
** ''[[:File:Waterhouse Hylas and the Nymphs Manchester Art Gallery 1896.15.jpg|Hylas and the Nymphs]]''
** ''[[:File:Pandora - John William Waterhouse.jpg|Pandora]]''
* [[James McNeill Whistler]]
** ''[[:File:Brooklyn Museum - Savoy Pigeons - James Abbott McNeill Whistler.jpg|Savoy Pigeons]]'' ([[lithograph]])
** ''[[:File:'The Thames', lithotint by James McNeill Whistler.jpg|The Thames]]'' (lithotint)
** ''Waterloo Bridge from the Savoy''
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131216190654/http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch/DetailedResults.fwx?collection=whistler&searchTerm=46254 Westminster from the Savoy]'' ([[watercolor]])
* [[Anders Zorn]] – ''[[:File:Självporträtt av Anders Zorn 1896.jpg|Self-portrait with model]]''

==Births==
* [[January 4]] – [[André Masson]], [[France|French]] artist (died [[1987 in art|1987]])
* [[January 20]] – [[Charles E. Brown (photographer)|Charles E. Brown]], [[English people|English]] aviation photographer (died [[1982 in art|1982]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Sava Šumanović]], [[Serbian people|Serbian]] painter (died [[1942 in art|1942]])
* [[April 14]] – [[Alfredo Volpi]], Brazilian Modernist painter (died [[1988 in art|1988]])
* [[July 2]]
** [[Quirino Cristiani]], [[Argentina|Argentine]] [[animation]] [[film director|director]] and [[cartoonist]] (died [[1984 in art|1984]])
** [[Prudence Heward]], [[Canadians|Canadian]] painter (died [[1947 in art|1947]])
* [[July 13]] – [[Mordecai Ardon]], [[Israel]]i painter (died [[1992 in art|1992]])
* [[August 4]] – [[José Fioravanti]], Argentine monumental sculptor (died [[1977 in art|1977]])
* [[August 14]] – [[Eric Grate]], Swedish sculptor, painter and graphics artist (died [[1983 in art|1983]])
* [[August 15]] – [[Paul Outerbridge]], photographer (died [[1958 in art|1958]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Camilo Mori]], [[Chile]]an painter (died [[1973 in art|1973]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Erika Abels d'Albert]], Austrian artist (died [[1975 in art|1975]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Ernst Thoms]], German painter (died [[1983 in art|1983]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Marion Dorn]], American-born textile designer (died [[1964 in art|1964]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Cathleen Mann]], English portrait painter and costume designer (died [[1959 in art|1959]])
* [[Cicely Hey]], English artist and model (died [[1980 in art|1980]])

==Deaths==
* [[January 4]] – [[Henri Alfred Jacquemart]], French sculptor and animalier (born [[1824 in art|1824]])
* [[January 15]] – [[Mathew Brady]], American photographer (born [[1822 in art|1822]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Frederic Leighton]], English painter and sculptor specialising in classical subjects (born [[1830 in art|1830]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Jean-Auguste Barre]], French sculptor (born [[1811 in art|1811]])
* February – [[John Cooke Bourne]], English topographical artist, lithographer and photographer (born [[1814 in art|1814]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Viktor Oskar Tilgner]], Austrian sculptor (born [[1844 in art|1844]])
* [[May 3]] – [[Alfred William Hunt]], English painter (born 1830)
* [[May 5]] – [[Jacob Fjelde]], Norwegian American sculptor (born [[1855 in art|1855]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Évariste Vital Luminais]], French historical painter (born [[1821 in art|1821]])
* [[July 7]] – [[Erdmann Encke]], German sculptor (born [[1843 in art|1843]])
* [[August 13]] – Sir [[John Everett Millais]], English pre-Raphaelite painter (born [[1829 in art|1829]])
* [[August 14]] – [[Olin Levi Warner]], American sculptor (born [[1844 in art|1844]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Emmanuel Benner]], French painter (born [[1836 in art|1836]])
* [[November 9]] – [[Napoleon Sarony]], [[Canadian American]] portrait photographer (born 1821)

==References==
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