1895 in art
The year 1895 in art involved some significant events.
Events
- January 1 – Alphonse Mucha's lithographed poster for the play Gismonda starring Sarah Bernhardt is posted in Paris. Bernhardt is so satisfied with its success that she gives Mucha a six-year contract.
- April 13 – The Russian Museum is established in Saint Petersburg by Nicholas II.
- April 30 – First Venice Biennale opens.
- May 6 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1895 opens at Burlington House in London
- July 3 – Paul Gauguin leaves France to settle permanently in Polynesia.
- October – Edvard Munch exhibits an extended series of his Love paintings in Christiania, Norway.
- November – Paul Cézanne has his first solo exhibition, at the Paris gallery of Ambroise Vollard.
- Munch writes "Could only have been painted by a madman" on his 1893 painting The Scream.
- Bernard Berenson publishes Lorenzo Lotto: An Essay in Constructive Art Criticism.
- P. H. Emerson publishes his last photographic book, Marsh Leaves.
- M. H. de Young Memorial Museum opened in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
Works
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema – '
- Rodolfo Amoedo – Más Notícias
- Aubrey Beardsley – Venus Between Terminal Gods
- William Adolphe Bouguereau -The Abduction of Psyche
- John Cassidy – Statue of Edward Colston
- Paul Cézanne
- * The Boy [in the Red Vest]
- * Still Life with Cherub
- Edgar Degas
- * After the Bath, Woman drying herself
- * Photographic self-portrait
- Thomas Eakins – Portrait of Maud Cook
- Paul Gauguin – Oviri
- Countess Feodora von Gleichen – Statue of Queen Victoria surrounded by children, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
- J. W. Godward
- * Mischief And Repose
- * The Muse Erato At Her Lyre
- Sydney Prior Hall – Joseph Chamberlain and Arthur Balfour
- Winslow Homer
- * Cannon Rock
- * Northeaster
- George W. Joy
- * The Bayswater Omnibus
- * '
- Sir Frederic Leighton
- * Candida
- * Flaming June
- * '
- * Listener
- * The Maid with the Golden Hair
- * A Study
- * Twixt hope and fear
- Isaac Levitan – Fresh Wind. Volga
- Juan Luna
- * La Bulaqueña
- * Tampuhan
- Henry Arthur McArdle – Battle of San Jacinto
- Louis Maurer – The Great Royal Buffalo Hunt
- Gustave Moreau – Jupiter and Semele
- Edvard Munch
- * After the Fall of Man
- * Jealousy
- * Madonna
- * Self-Portrait with Cigarette
- * Self-Portrait with Skeleton Arm
- Roderic O'Conor – La Jeune Bretonne
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Gabrielle et Jean
- Tom Roberts – Bailed Up
- John Singer Sargent – Frederick Law Olmsted
- Carlos Schwabe – La mort du fossoyeur
- Valentin Serov – Portrait of Countess Varvara Musina-Pushkina
- Marianne Stokes – St. Elizabeth of Hungary Spinning for the Poor
- Théophile Steinlen – Les Chanteurs des Rues
- Vardges Sureniants – Desecrated Shrine
- Dorothy Tennant – L'Amour Blessé
- James Tissot – La femme préhistorique
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Portrait of Oscar Wilde
- Louis Tuaillon – Amazone zu Pferde
- Laurits Tuxen – The Wedding of Tsar Nicholas II
- John Henry Twachtman – The White Bridge
- Félix Vallotton – Clair de lune
- J. Alden Weir – The Ice Cutters
- W. L. Wyllie – The Opening of Tower Bridge''
Births
- January 21 – Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer
- February 6 – Franz Radziwill, German painter
- March 1 – Ogura Yuki, Japanese nihonga painter
- March 4 – Mikuláš Galanda, Slovak modernist painter and illustrator
- March 29 – Anne Redpath, Scottish still life painter
- April 7
- * Jim Ede, English art collector
- * John Bernard Flannagan, American sculptor
- May 8 – Georg Muche, German painter
- June 3 – Frank McKelvey, Irish painter
- June 5 – William Roberts, British painter
- June 30 – Heinz Warneke, German-born American sculptor
- July 2 – Gen Paul, French painter and engraver
- July 19 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter
- August 7 – Alain Saint-Ogan, French comics author and artist
- August 13 – Gluck, born Hannah Gluckstein, English painter
- August 17 – Talbert Abrams, American "father of aerial photography"
- November 1 – David Jones, British poet and painter
- December 26 – Jefto Perić, Serbian painter date unknown
- * Ilija Bašičević, Serbian painter and father of painter-sculptor Dimitrije Bašičević
- * Marguerite Huré, French stained glass artist
Deaths
- January 5 – Władysław Podkowiński, Polish painter and illustrator
- February 1 – Mary Thornycroft, English sculptor
- February 8 – Jean-François Portaels, Belgian painter
- March 2 – Berthe Morisot, French Impressionist painter
- March 6 – Edwin Forbes, American landscape painter and etcher
- April 19 – Sir George Scharf, English art critic
- April 21 – Arthur Gilbert, English landscape painter
- May 24 – Joseph Quinaux, Belgian landscape painter
- September 9 – Gaetano Milanesi, Italian art historian
- September 21 – Silvestro Lega, Italian realist painter
- November 23 – Mauritz de Haas, Dutch-American marine painter