1893 in art

Events

• February – Grafton Galleries open in London.
• April – The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art is first published in London by Charles Holme with Joseph Gleeson White as editor and a cover design by Aubrey Beardsley.
• May 1 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA, with a Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking the man-made lake. The first United States commemorative postage stamps are issued for the Exposition. Among other art exhibits are two bronze calves by Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen.
• June 14 – Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford, designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford.
• June 29 – Unveiling of the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain at Piccadilly Circus in London, with a gilded aluminium statue of Anteros, designed by Alfred Gilbert and cast by Morris Singer.
• Ford Madox Brown completes painting The Manchester Murals in Manchester Town Hall.
• The National Sculpture Society is founded in the United States.
• Alois Riegl's Stilfragen: Grundlegungen zu einer Geschichte der Ornamentik is published in Berlin.
• Henri Rousseau gives up his job as a Paris toll collector and moves to a studio in Montparnasse where he lives and paints full-time.
• A 16th century Ardabil Carpet from Persia enters the collection of the South Kensington Museum in London.

Exhibitions

• December – Unter den Linden in Berlin holds an exhibition of Edvard Munch's work, including six paintings entitled Study for a Series: Love, beginning his Frieze of Life cycle.

Works

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Unconscious Rivals
• Léon Bakst – Self-portrait
• Charles Burton Barber – A Special Pleader
• Aubrey Beardsley – Illustrations to Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur
• Henrique Bernardelli – Messalini
• Olga Boznańska – Self-portrait
• Edgar Bundy – Antonio Stradivari at work in his studio
• Mary Cassatt – The Child's Bath
• Paul Cézanne – Basket of Apples
• Henri-Edmond Cross – The Evening Air
• Ernesto de la Cárcova – Without Bread or Work
• Frank Dicksee –
• Albert Edelfelt
• * Larin Paraske
• * Two women with laundry
• Paul Gauguin
• *Otahi
• *Portrait of the artist in a hat
• J. W. Godward
• * A Priestess
• * Reflections
• * Yes Or No
• Félix Resurrección Hidalgo – Adios del Sol
• Winslow Homer – The Fox Hunt
• Paul Jamin – Brennus and His Share of the Spoils
• Eero Järnefelt
• * Larin Paraske
• * Under the Yoke
• Christian Krohg – Leiv Eirikson Discovering America
• Peder Severin Krøyer – Summer Evening on Skagen's Southern Beach
• Gaston La Touche – L'Ennui
• Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne – Statue of her mother Queen Victoria, in Kensington Gardens, London
• Hendrik Willem Mesdag – Bomschuiten in the surf, ready for departure
• Albert Joseph Moore
• * An Idyll
• * The Loves of the Winds and the Seasons
• Edvard Munch
• * Death in the Sickroom
• * The Scream
• * Starry Night
• Władysław Podkowiński – Frenzy of Exultations
• Odilon Redon – Sita
• Augustus Saint-Gaudens – Diana
• Alfred Stieglitz – photographs
• * The Terminal
• * Winter – Fifth Avenue
• Franz Stuck – The Sin
• Joseph-Noël Sylvestre – François Rude working on the Arc de Triomphe
• Abbott Handerson Thayer – The Virgin
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Jane Avril
• Henry Scott Tuke – August Blue
• Raja Ravi Varma – There Comes Papa
• Stanisław Wyspiański – ''Self-portrait''

Births

January to June

• January 13 – Chaïm Soutine, painter
• February 2 – Sreten Stojanović, Serbian sculptor.
• February 10 – Walter Hofer, German art dealer
• March 3
• * Ivon Hitchens, English painter
• * Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist
• March 11 – Wanda Gag, children's author and artist
• March 22 – Bernard Fleetwood-Walker, English artist
• March 29 – Dora Carrington, painter and designer
• April 7 – Almada Negreiros, Portuguese artist
• April 9 – Charles E. Burchfield, American scene painter
• April 11 – John Nash, English painter, illustrator, and engraver
• April 20 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist
• May 16 – Stella Bowen, Australian painter
• May 31 – Janet Sobel, born Jennie Olechovsky, Ukrainian-born American Abstract Expressionist pioneer of drip painting

July to December

• July 3 – Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer
• July 8 – Abraham Rattner, American painter and camouflage specialist
• July 26 – George Grosz, German painter and draftsman
• September 2 – Mary Cecil Allen, Australian-born painter
• September 15 – Rene Paul Chambellan, American sculptor
• October 1 – Marianne Brandt, German painter, sculptor and designer
• October 8 – Orovida Camille Pissarro, English painter and etcher
• October 9 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer
• November 19 – Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, British intelligence officer, mountaineer and painter
• December – Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist
• December 10 – Russell Johnson, American cartoonist
• December 29 – Berthold Bartosch, Bohemian animator

Date unknown

• Otto Eppers, American cartoonist
• Henry Matthew Talintyre, British comic strip artist

Deaths

• January 30 – Prince Grigory Gagarin, Russian soldier and painter
• February 21 – John Pettie, Scottish-born painter
• March 16 – William H. Illingworth, American photographer
• April 6 – George Vicat Cole, English painter
• April 18 – Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, Polish painter
• May 8 – Adèle Kindt, Belgian portrait and genre painter
• August 10 – Robert Cornelius, American pioneer of photography
• September 25 – Albert Joseph Moore, English painter
• September 28 – Annie Feray Mutrie, British painter
• October 6 – Ford Madox Brown, French-born English painter
• October 10 – Barthélemy Menn, Swiss plein air painter and draughtsman
• October 13 – Atkinson Grimshaw, English painter noted for nocturnal townscapes
• October 29 – Gustav Mützel, German animal painter
• December 10 – Josephine Calamatta, French painter and engraver
• December 23 – Gunnar Berg, Norwegian painter