# 1899 in art

The year 1899 in art involved some significant events.

## Events

* December 15 – Glasgow School of Art opens its new building, the most notable work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
* Camille Pissarro takes an apartment overlooking the Tuileries Garden in Paris and produces a series of paintings of the view.

## Works

* José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior – Saudade
* Wilhelm Amberg – Lost in Thoughts (approx. date)
* Ottó Baditz – Women in the Prison
* Louis-Ernest Barrias – Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science
* George Edwin Bissell – Statue of Chester A. Arthur (bronze, New York City)
* Pierre Bonnard – Little Girl with a Cat
* Léon Bonnat – Marie Georgine de Ligne
* Paul Cézanne – Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
* Jules Dalou – Monument à Alphand (Paris)
* Thomas Eakins
** Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams (first version)
** Wrestlers
* Jean Leon Gerome Ferris – Signing the Mayflower Compact
* Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter – Equestrian statue of Ulysses S. Grant
* Paul Gauguin – Two Tahitian Women
* J. W. Godward
** The Bouquet
** The Delphic Oracle
** The Mirror
** The Signal
* William Harnett – Violin
* Winslow Homer – The Gulf Stream
* William Holman Hunt – The Miracle of the Holy Fire
* Peder Severin Krøyer – Summer evening by Skagen's beach: Artist and his wife
* Constantin Meunier – The Horse at the Pond (Brussels)
* Claude Monet – Charing Cross Bridge (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid)
* Edvard Munch – The Dance of Life
* John F. Peto – Still life with Mug, Pipe and Book
* Maurice Prendergast – Splash of Sunshine and Rain
* Mykola Pymonenko – A Victim of Fanaticism
* Lionel Royer -Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar
* John Singer Sargent – The Wyndham Sisters
* Vardges Sureniants – After the Massacre
* Leon Wyczółkowski – Irena Solska
* W. L. Wyllie – The Battle of the Nile

## Births

* January 20
** Pierre Gandon, French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (died 1990)
** Clarice Cliff, English ceramic artist (died 1972)
* February 15
** Lillian Disney, American artist and wife of Walt Disney (died 1997)
** Grethe Jürgens, German painter (died 1981)
* February 22 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (died 1986)
* March 20 – G. David Thompson, American industrialist and collector of modern art (died 1965)
* April 3 – Borislav Bogdanović, Serbian portraitist (died 1970)
* April 27 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist and animator (died 1994)
* May 22
** Kosta Hakman, Serbian painter (died 1961)
** Pan Yuliang, Chinese-born painter (died 1977)
* June 2 – Lotte Reiniger, German silhouette animator and film director (died 1981)
* June 12 – Anni Albers, born Annelise Fleischmann, German-born textile artist and printmaker (died 1994)
* July 3 – Else Halling, Norwegian tapestry weaver (died 1987)
* July 16 – Božidar Jakac, Slovene painter and graphic artist (died 1989)
* July (unknown day) - Isaac Frenkel Frenel, Israeli French painter and sculptor (died 1981)
* August 10 – Margarete Heymann, German-born ceramic artist (died 1990)
* August 19 – Bradley Walker Tomlin, American painter (died 1955)
* September 9 – Brassaï, Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker (died 1984)
* September 24 – William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (died 1970)
* December 4 – Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, German avant-garde painter (euthanized 1940)
* December 25 – Raphael Soyer, Russian-born American painter (died 1987)

## Deaths

* January 29 – Alfred Sisley, French Impressionist painter (born 1839)
* January 30 – Harry Bates, English sculptor (born 1850)
* March 27 – Myles Birket Foster, English illustrator and watercolour painter (born 1825)
* May 25 – Rosa Bonheur, French painter (born 1822)
* July 29 – Adolf Schreyer, German painter (born 1828)
* August 22 – Caspar Buberl, American sculptor (born 1834)
* November 13 – José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Brazilian painter (born 1850)
* December 7 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter (born 1857)
* December 23 – Dominique Antoine Magaud, French painter (born 1817)
* date unknown – François Salle, French realist painter (born 1839)