# 1891 in art

The year 1891 in art involved some significant events.

## Events

* May 10 – Danish sculptor Anne Marie Brodersen marries her compatriot, the classical composer Carl Nielsen, in St Mark's English Church, Florence, the couple having first met on March 2 in Paris.
* June – Sidney Paget produces his first illustrations for Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand Magazine.
* Henri Matisse begins his studies at the Académie Julian.
* Correspondence of Marie Bashkirtseff and Gustave Flaubert is published.
* Paul Gauguin sails to French Polynesia.
* Impressionist Armand Guillaumin wins 100,000 francs in the French state lottery and is able to devote himself to painting full-time.
* Félix Vallotton makes his first woodcuts.

## Works

* William-Adolphe Bouguereau
** The Goose Girl
** Work Interrupted
* Frank Bramley – For Of Such Is The Kingdom Of Heaven
* Edward Burne-Jones – Sponsa de Libano
* Philip Hermogenes Calderon – St. Elizabeth of Hungary
* Milly Childers – Hugh Culling Eardley Childers
* Pierre Puvis de Chavannes – The Shepherd's Song
* Édouard Detaille – Vive L'Empereur: charge du quatrième hussards à la bataille de Friedland, 14 juin 1807
* Alexander Doyle – Statue of Henry W. Grady
* Thomas Eakins – Miss Amelia Van Buren (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)
* James Ensor – Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels)
* Luke Fildes – The Doctor
* Akseli Gallen-Kallela – Aino Triptych (second version)
* Paul Gauguin – Tahitian Women on the Beach
* J. W. Godward
** Innocent Amusement
** A Pompeian Lady
** The Sweet Siesta of a Summer Day
* Hubert von Herkomer
** In the Black Country
** On Strike
* Carl Kahler – My Wife's Lovers
* Benjamin Williams Leader – The Excavation of the Manchester Ship Canal: Eastham Cutting with Mount Manisty in the Distance
* Sir Frederic Leighton – Perseus and Andromeda
* John Henry Lorimer – The Ordination of Elders in a Scottish Kirk
* Frederick William MacMonnies – Statue of James S. T. Stranahan
* Jan Matejko – Constitution of May 3, 1791
* Claude Monet
** The Haystack Series
** The Poplar Series
* Edvard Munch – Melancholy (first version)
* Mikhail Nesterov – The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew
* Edward Poynter – When the World was Young
* Henrietta Rae – Miss Nightingale at Scutari (1854)
* Paul Ranson – Witches Around the Fire
* Ilya Repin – Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
* Tom Roberts – A break away!
* Henri Rousseau – Tiger in a Tropical Storm
* Augustus Saint-Gaudens – Adams Memorial
* John Singer Sargent – Egyptians Raising Water from the Nile
* Giovanni Segantini
** Midday in the Alps
** The Punishment of Lust
* Georges Seurat – completion of The Circus (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
* John "Hans" Staehli – Chiming Fountain, Portland, Oregon
* Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Moulin Rouge: La Goulue (color lithographic poster)
* Edward Arthur Walton – Bluette
* J. W. Waterhouse – Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses
* George Frederic Watts – After the Deluge

## Births

* January 21 – Franz Sedlacek, Austrian painter (died 1945)
* February 13 – Grant Wood, American painter (died 1942)
* April 2 – Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet (died 1976)
* April 4 – Virgilio Guidi, Italian painter (died 1984)
* April 7 – David Low, New Zealand-born editorial cartoonist (died 1963)
* May 10 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (died 1934)
* June 8 – Audrey Munson, American actress and artist's model (died 1996)
* June 19 – John Heartfield, born Helmut Herzfeld, German graphic designer (died 1968)
* June 30 - Stanley Spencer, English painter (died 1959)
* August 15 – Iva Despić-Simonović, Croatian sculptor (died 1961)
* August 25 – Alberto Savinio, Italian writer, painter and composer (died 1952)
* September 22 – Alma Thomas, African American abstract expressionist painter (died 1978)
* October 7 – Charles R. Chickering, American illustrator (died 1970)
* October 11 – George Ault, American painter (died 1948)
* December 2 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (died 1969)
* December 9 – Mark Gertler, British painter (died 1939)

## Deaths

* January 27 – Jervis McEntee, American painter of the Hudson River School (born 1828)
* January 30 – Charles Joshua Chaplin, French painter and engraver (born 1825)
* January 31 – Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, French classicist painter (born 1815)
* February 9 – Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (born 1819)
* March 19 – Ernest Hoschedé, French businessman and collector of Impressionist paintings (born 1837)
* March 26 – Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, Dutch watercolorist (born 1822)
* March 29 – Georges Seurat, French Post-Impressionist painter (born 1859)
* April 5 – Daniel Cottier, Scottish-born artist and designer (born 1837)
* April 14 – Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve, Spanish painter, son of Juan Antonio Ribera (born 1815)
* May 12 – Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, British Pre-Raphaelite watercolourist (born 1818)
* May 16 – John Banvard, American panorama painter (born 1815)
* September 5 – Jules-Élie Delaunay, French academic painter (born 1828)
* September 6 – Elise Arnberg, Swedish miniaturist and photographer (born 1826)
* September 9 – William Theed, English sculptor (born 1804)
* September 11 – Théodule Ribot, French realist painter (born 1823)
* September 15 – John Steell, Scottish portrait sculptor (born 1804)
* October 30 – Truman Seymour, American soldier and painter (born 1824)