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 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
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