# 1893 in art

The year 1893 in art involved some significant events.

## Events

* February – Grafton Galleries open in London.
* April – The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art is first published in London by Charles Holme with Joseph Gleeson White as editor and a cover design by Aubrey Beardsley.
* May 1 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA, with a Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking the man-made lake. The first United States commemorative postage stamps are issued for the Exposition. Among other art exhibits are two bronze calves by Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen.
* June 14 – Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford, designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford.
* June 29 – Unveiling of the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain at Piccadilly Circus in London, with a gilded aluminium statue of Anteros, designed by Alfred Gilbert and cast by Morris Singer.
* Ford Madox Brown completes painting The Manchester Murals in Manchester Town Hall (England).
* The National Sculpture Society is founded in the United States.
* Alois Riegl's Stilfragen: Grundlegungen zu einer Geschichte der Ornamentik is published in Berlin.
* Henri Rousseau gives up his job as a Paris toll collector and moves to a studio in Montparnasse where he lives and paints full-time.
* A 16th century Ardabil Carpet from Persia enters the collection of the South Kensington Museum in London.

## Exhibitions

* December – Unter den Linden in Berlin holds an exhibition of Edvard Munch's work, including six paintings entitled Study for a Series: Love, beginning his Frieze of Life cycle.

## Works

* Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Unconscious Rivals
* Léon Bakst – Self-portrait
* Charles Burton Barber – A Special Pleader
* Aubrey Beardsley – Illustrations to Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (J. M. Dent)
* Henrique Bernardelli – Messalini
* Olga Boznańska – Self-portrait
* Edgar Bundy – Antonio Stradivari at work in his studio
* Mary Cassatt – The Child's Bath
* Paul Cézanne – Basket of Apples
* Henri-Edmond Cross – The Evening Air (approximate date)
* Ernesto de la Cárcova – Without Bread or Work
* Frank Dicksee – The Funeral of a Viking
* Albert Edelfelt
** Larin Paraske
** Two women with laundry
* Paul Gauguin
** Otahi
** Portrait of the artist in a hat
* J. W. Godward
** A Priestess (nude version)
** Reflections
** Yes Or No
* Félix Resurrección Hidalgo – Adios del Sol
* Winslow Homer – The Fox Hunt
* Paul Jamin – Brennus and His Share of the Spoils
* Eero Järnefelt
** Larin Paraske
** Under the Yoke (Burning the Brushwood) (Raatajat rahanalaiset)
* Christian Krohg – Leiv Eirikson Discovering America
* Peder Severin Krøyer – Summer Evening on Skagen's Southern Beach (Sommeraften på Skagen Sønderstrand med Anna Ancher og Marie Krøyer)
* Gaston La Touche – L'Ennui
* Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne – Statue of her mother Queen Victoria, in Kensington Gardens, London
* Hendrik Willem Mesdag – Bomschuiten in the surf, ready for departure
* Albert Joseph Moore
** An Idyll
** The Loves of the Winds and the Seasons
* Edvard Munch
** Death in the Sickroom
** The Scream
** Starry Night
* Władysław Podkowiński – Frenzy of Exultations
* Odilon Redon – Sita (pastel)
* Augustus Saint-Gaudens – Diana (bronze cast)
* Alfred Stieglitz – photographs
** The Terminal
** Winter – Fifth Avenue
* Franz Stuck – The Sin
* Joseph-Noël Sylvestre – François Rude working on the Arc de Triomphe
* Abbott Handerson Thayer – The Virgin
* Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Jane Avril (poster)
* Henry Scott Tuke – August Blue
* Raja Ravi Varma – There Comes Papa
* Stanisław Wyspiański – Self-portrait

## Births
### January to June

* January 13 – Chaïm Soutine, painter (died 1943)
* February 2 – Sreten Stojanović, Serbian sculptor (died 1960).
* February 10 – Walter Hofer, German art dealer (died c. 1971)
* March 3
** Ivon Hitchens, English painter (died 1979)
** Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (died 1998)
* March 11 – Wanda Gag, children's author and artist (died 1946)
* March 22 – Bernard Fleetwood-Walker, English artist (died 1965)
* March 29 – Dora Carrington, painter and designer (died 1932)
* April 7 – Almada Negreiros, Portuguese artist (died 1970)
* April 9 – Charles E. Burchfield, American scene painter (died 1967)
* April 11 – John Nash, English painter, illustrator, and engraver (died 1977)
* April 20 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (died 1983)
* May 16 – Stella Bowen, Australian painter (died 1947)
* May 31 – Janet Sobel, born Jennie Olechovsky, Ukrainian-born American Abstract Expressionist pioneer of drip painting (died 1968)

### July to December

* July 3 – Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer (died 1976)
* July 8 – Abraham Rattner, American painter and camouflage specialist (died 1978)
* July 26 – George Grosz, German painter and draftsman (died 1959)
* September 2 – Mary Cecil Allen, Australian-born painter (died 1962)
* September 15 – Rene Paul Chambellan, American sculptor (died 1955)
* October 1 – Marianne Brandt, German painter, sculptor and designer (died 1983)
* October 8 – Orovida Camille Pissarro, English painter and etcher (died 1968)
* October 9 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (died 1945)
* November 19 – Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, British intelligence officer, mountaineer and painter (died 1986)
* December – Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (died 1979)
* December 10 – Russell Johnson, American cartoonist (died 1995)
* December 29 – Berthold Bartosch, Bohemian animator (died 1968)

### Date unknown

* Otto Eppers, American cartoonist (died 1955)
* Henry Matthew Talintyre, British comic strip artist (died 1962)

## Deaths

* January 30 – Prince Grigory Gagarin, Russian soldier and painter (born 1811)
* February 21 – John Pettie, Scottish-born painter (born 1839)
* March 16 – William H. Illingworth, American photographer (born 1844)
* April 6 – George Vicat Cole, English painter (born 1833)
* April 18 – Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, Polish painter (born 1857)
* May 8 – Adèle Kindt, Belgian portrait and genre painter (born 1804)
* August 10 – Robert Cornelius, American pioneer of photography (born 1809)
* September 25 – Albert Joseph Moore, English painter (born 1841)
* September 28 – Annie Feray Mutrie, British painter (born 1826)
* October 6 – Ford Madox Brown, French-born English painter (born 1821)
* October 10 – Barthélemy Menn, Swiss plein air painter and draughtsman (born 1811)
* October 13 – Atkinson Grimshaw, English painter noted for nocturnal townscapes (born 1836)
* October 29 – Gustav Mützel, German animal painter (born 1839)
* December 10 – Josephine Calamatta, French painter and engraver (born 1817)
* December 23 – Gunnar Berg, Norwegian painter (born 1863)