# 1892 in art

The year 1892 in art involved some significant events.

## Events

* February – Claude Monet begins painting his Rouen Cathedral series
* c. February – Alfred Gilbert is commissioned to sculpt the tomb (with recumbent effigy) of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, in the Albert Memorial Chapel of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England; although not finished until 1928 it is substantially complete in 1898 as "the finest single example of late 19th-century sculpture in the British Isles"
* March – James McNeill Whistler stages his major retrospective exhibition, Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet pieces at Goupil & Cie's London gallery, then moves to Paris
* April 4 – Munich Secession
* May – The Brotherhood of The Linked Ring is founded by Henry Peach Robinson in England to promote photography as a fine art
* November – "The Munch Affair": Adelsteen Normann, on behalf of the Union of Berlin Artists, invites Edvard Munch to stage a one-man exhibition. However, his paintings evoke bitter controversy and after one week the exhibition is closed; Munch's paintings are moved to the Equitable Palast
* Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Herbert MacNair are introduced to Margaret and Frances MacDonald in Glasgow
* Il Codice Magliabechiano, a 16th century collection of brief biographies and notes on the works of Italian artists by "Anonimo Gaddiano", is first published

## Awards

* Legion of Honour (France) – James McNeill Whistler

## Works of art
### Paintings

* Ivan Aivazovsky – Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships
* Emmanuel Benner – A Family in the Stone Age
* José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior – Leitura ("Reading")
* John Henry Frederick Bacon – The Wedding Morning
* Gustave Caillebotte
** Nasturtiums
** Portrait of the artist
* Gustaf Cederström – Magnus Stenbock in Malmö
* John Collier – Lilith
* Thomas Eakins – The Concert Singer
* James Ensor
** Man of Sorrows (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp)
** The Skate
* Paul Gauguin
** Aha Oe Feii?
** ’’Arearea’’
** Fatata te Miti ("By the Sea")
** Spirit of the Dead Watching
** Te Fare
** ’’We Shall Not Go to Marker Today’’
** When Will You Marry?
* J. W. Godward
** At The Garden Shrine, Pompeii
** The Betrothed
** Classical Beauty
** Far Away Thoughts (two versions)
** Leaning On The Balcony
** The Playground
** With Violets Wreathed And Robe Of Saffron Hue
* Lydia Purdy Hess – Portrait of Miss E. H.
* P. S. Krøyer – Summer Evening at Skagen. The Artist's Wife and Dog by the Shore
* Evert Larock – The Idiot
* Sir Frederic Leighton – The Garden of the Hesperides
* Isaac Levitan – Evening Bells
* Maximilien Luce – Côte de la citadelle
* Juan Luna
** The Parisian Life
** Peuple et Rois
* Jacek Malczewski
** Christmas Eve in Siberia
** Self-portrait with palette
* Francis Davis Millet
** An Autumn Idyll
** Between Two Fires
* Albert Joseph Moore – Lightning and Light
* Edvard Munch
** Evening on Karl Johan
** Inger in Black and Violet
** August Strindberg
* John Singer Sargent – Mrs. Hugh Hammersley
* Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
** La Goulue arriving at the Moulin Rouge (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
** Le Lit
** At the Moulin Rouge
** At the Moulin Rouge: two women waltzing
** Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge
** Posters for Aristide Bruant
* Henry Scott Tuke – Mrs Florence Humphris
* Félix Vallotton
** Bathers on a Summer Evening (1892–93)
** The Invalid
* Édouard Vuillard – Self-Portrait

### Sculptures

* Charles E. Barber – United States Barber coinage
* Jean-Léon Gérôme – Bellona
* Felix Görling – Statue of Alexander von Humboldt (Chicago)
* Richard Henry Park – John Plankinton statue
* Jeronimo Sunol – Statue of Christopher Columbus (Central Park, New York City)

### Other

* The Diamond Trellis Egg is presented to Maria Feodorovna by her husband Alexander III of Russia

## Births

* 29 February – Augusta Savage, African American sculptor (died 1962).
* 5 March - Dean Cornwell, American illustrator, painter, and muralist (died 1960)
* 14 March – Charles Wheeler, English sculptor (died 1974).
* 4 April – Italo Mus, Italian painter (died 1967)
* 8 May – Luigi Del Bianco, Italian-born American sculptor (died 1969)
* 12 May – Colin Gill, English war artist, muralist and portrait painter (died 1940).
* 14 May – Marjorie Watson-Williams, English painter (died 1984).
* 19 May – Wilhelm Heise, German painter (died 1965).
* 30 May – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (died 1972).
* 31 May – Michel Kikoine, painter (died 1968).
* 30 June – Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, German painter (died 1966).
* 15 July – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, "comparatists" and art critic (died 1940).
* July 19 – Suzanne Malherbe, French illustrator and designer (died 1972).
* July 24 – Marcel Gromaire, French painter (died 1971).
* 7 August – Einar Forseth, Swedish artist.
* 16 August – Otto Messmer, American animator (died 1983).
* 11 October – Anton Räderscheidt, German painter (died 1970).
* 16 October – Adolf Ziegler, German painter and politician (died 1959).
* 23 November – Romain de Tirtoff, Russian-born French artist and designer (died 1990).
* 7 December – Stuart Davis, American painter (died 1964).
* Undated
** Lang Jingshan, Chinese photographer (died 1995).
** Veljko Stanojević, Serbian painter (died 1967).

## Deaths

* January 11 – Amanda Sidwall, Swedish painter and illustrator (born 1844)
* January 14 – Alexander Jackson Davis, American architect and illustrator (born 1803)
* January 15 – Randolph Rogers, American neoclassical sculptor (born 1825)
* January 20 – Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, French engraver (born 1797)
* February 27 – Louis Vuitton, French designer (born 1821)
* March 3 – Fedor Solntsev, Russian painter and art historian (born 1801)
* March 21 – Anthon van Rappard, Dutch painter (born 1858)
* June 1 – Louis Janmot, French painter (born 1814)
* October 5 – Albert Aurier, French Symbolist poet, art critic and painter (born 1865)
* October 7 – Thomas Woolner, English sculptor and poet (born 1825)
* October 29 – William Harnett, Irish American trompe l'oeil painter (born 1848)
* December 9 – Ernst Klimt, Austrian mural painter (born 1864)
* Undated
** Walter Hood Fitch, British botanical artist (born 1817)
** Serafino De Tivoli, Italian painter (born 1826)