1896 in art
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[edit] Events
- January 24 - Painter Sir Frederic Leighton is created 1st Baron Leighton in the peerage of the United Kingdom one day before his death.
- 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.
- At Giverny Claude Monet begins painting his Mornings on the Seine series, which will continue through 1897.
- Bernard Berenson publishes Florentine Painters of the Renaissance.
[edit] Works
See also: Category:1896 sculptures
- Harry Bates - equestrian statue of Lord Roberts
- Alfred Boucher - Volubilis (sculpture)
- Paul Dubois - Baptism of Clovis (sculpture in front of Reims Cathedral)
- Thomas Eakins - The Pianist
- Julian Fałat - Self-portrait
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela - The Defense of the Sampo
- Niels Hansen Jacobsen - Trold, der vejrer kristenblod (sculpture)
- Juan Luna - Ecce Homo
- Frederick McCubbin - On the wallaby track
- Camille Pissarro - Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather
- Hugo Simberg - The Garden of Death (watercolor and gouache, Ateneum, Helsinki)
[edit] Births
- January 4 - André Masson, French artist (died 1987)
- April 14 - Alfredo Volpi, Brazilian Modernist painter (died 1988)
- July 2
- Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animation director and cartoonist (died 1984)
- Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (died 1947)
- July 13 - Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (died 1992)
- August 4 - José Fioravanti, Argentine monumental sculptor (died 1977)
- August 14 - Eric Grate, Swedish sculptor, painter and graphics artist (died 1983)
- August 15 - Paul Outerbridge, photographer (died 1958)
- September 24 - Camilo Mori, Chilean painter (died 1973)
[edit] Deaths
- January 4 - Henri Alfred Jacquemart, sculptor and animalier (born 1824)
- January 25 - Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, painter and sculptor (born 1830)
- February 5 - Jean-Auguste Barre, French sculptor (born 1811)
- April 16 - Viktor Oskar Tilgner, sculptor (born 1844)
- May 3 - Alfred William Hunt, painter (born 1830)
- May 5 - Jacob Fjelde, sculptor (born 1855)
- July 7 - Erdmann Encke, sculptor (born 1843)
- August 13 - Sir John Everett Millais, pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1829)
- August 14 - Olin Levi Warner, sculptor (born 1844)
