1892 in art

Events

• February – Claude Monet begins painting his Rouen Cathedral series
• c. February – Alfred Gilbert is commissioned to sculpt the tomb 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
• * Claude-Charles Bourgonnier is barred from exhibiting art at the Paris Salon for a two-year period after tearing up one of his own paintings while it is on display
• 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 GlasgowIl 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 – James McNeill Whistler

Works of art

Paintings

• Ivan Aivazovsky – Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships
• Emmanuel Benner – A Family in the Stone Age
• Almeida Júnior – Leitura
• John Henry Frederick Bacon – '
• 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
• *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
• *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
• John Everett Millais – Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
• Francis Davis Millet
• *An Autumn Idyll
• *'
• Albert Joseph Moore – Lightning and Light
• Edvard Munch
• *Evening on Karl Johan
• *Inger in Black and Violet
• John Pettie – Bonnie Prince Charlie Entering the Ballroom at Holyroodhouse
• *August Strindberg
• John Singer Sargent – Mrs. Hugh Hammersley
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
• *La Goulue arriving at the Moulin Rouge
• *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 –
• Félix Vallotton
• *Bathers on a Summer Evening
• *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
• Richard Henry Park – John Plankinton statue
• Jeronimo Sunol – Statue of Christopher Columbus

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.
• 5 March - Dean Cornwell, American illustrator, painter, and muralist
• 14 March – Charles Wheeler, English sculptor.
• 4 April – Italo Mus, Italian painter
• 8 May – Luigi Del Bianco, Italian-born American sculptor
• 12 May – Colin Gill, English war artist, muralist and portrait painter.
• 14 May – Marjorie Watson-Williams, English painter.
• 19 May – Wilhelm Heise, German painter.
• 30 May – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter.
• 31 May – Michel Kikoine, painter.
• 30 June – Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, German painter.
• 15 July – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, "comparatists" and art critic.
• July 19 – Suzanne Malherbe, French illustrator and designer.
• July 24 – Marcel Gromaire, French painter.
• 7 August – Einar Forseth, Swedish artist.
• 16 August – Otto Messmer, American animator.
• 11 October – Anton Räderscheidt, German painter.
• 16 October – Adolf Ziegler, German painter and politician.
• 23 November – Romain de Tirtoff, Russian-born French artist and designer.
• 7 December – Stuart Davis, American painter.
• Undated
• *Lang Jingshan, Chinese photographer.
• *Veljko Stanojević, Serbian painter.

Deaths

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