1899 in art

Events

• December 15 – Glasgow School of Art opens its new building, the most notable work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
• Camille Pissarro takes an apartment overlooking the Tuileries Garden in Paris and produces a series of paintings of the view.

Works

• Almeida Júnior – Saudade
• Wilhelm Amberg – Lost in Thoughts
• Ottó Baditz – Women in the Prison
• Louis-Ernest Barrias – Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science
• George Edwin Bissell – Statue of Chester A. Arthur
• Pierre Bonnard – Little Girl with a Cat
• Léon Bonnat – Marie Georgine de Ligne
• Paul Cézanne – Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
• Jules Dalou – Monument à Alphand
• Thomas Eakins
• * Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams
• * Wrestlers
• Jean Leon Gerome Ferris – Signing the Mayflower Compact
• Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter – Equestrian statue of Ulysses S. Grant
• Paul Gauguin – Two Tahitian Women
• J. W. Godward
• * The Bouquet
• * The Delphic Oracle
• * The Mirror
• * The Signal
• William Harnett – Violin
• Winslow Homer – The Gulf Stream
• William Holman Hunt – The Miracle of the Holy Fire
• Peder Severin Krøyer – Summer evening by Skagen's beach: Artist and his wife
• Constantin Meunier – The Horse at the Pond
• Claude Monet – Charing Cross Bridge
• Edvard Munch – The Dance of Life
• John F. Peto – Still life with Mug, Pipe and Book
• Maurice Prendergast – Splash of Sunshine and Rain
• Mykola Pymonenko – A Victim of Fanaticism
• Lionel Royer -Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar
• John Singer Sargent
• *An Interior Venice
• *The Wyndham Sisters
• Vardges Sureniants – After the Massacre
• Leon Wyczółkowski – Irena Solska
• W. L. Wyllie – ''''

Births

• January 20
• * Pierre Gandon, French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps
• * Clarice Cliff, English ceramic artist
• February 15
• * Lillian Disney, American artist and wife of Walt Disney
• * Grethe Jürgens, German painter
• February 22 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter
• March 20 – G. David Thompson, American industrialist and collector of modern art
• April 3 – Borislav Bogdanović, Serbian portraitist
• April 27 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist and animator
• May 22
• * Kosta Hakman, Serbian painter
• * Pan Yuliang, Chinese-born painter
• June 2 – Lotte Reiniger, German silhouette animator and film director
• June 12 – Anni Albers, born Annelise Fleischmann, German-born textile artist and printmaker
• July 3 – Else Halling, Norwegian tapestry weaver
• July 16 – Božidar Jakac, Slovene painter and graphic artist
• July - Isaac Frenkel Frenel, Israeli French painter and sculptor
• August 10 – Margarete Heymann, German-born ceramic artist
• August 19 – Bradley Walker Tomlin, American painter
• September 9 – Brassaï, Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker
• September 24 – William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter
• December 4 – Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, German avant-garde painter
• December 25 – Raphael Soyer, Russian-born American painter

Deaths

• January 29 – Alfred Sisley, French Impressionist painter
• January 30 – Harry Bates, English sculptor
• March 27 – Myles Birket Foster, English illustrator and watercolour painter
• May 25 – Rosa Bonheur, French painter
• July 21 – Louis Eysen, German painter
• July 29 – Adolf Schreyer, German painter
• August 22 – Caspar Buberl, American sculptor
• November 13 – Almeida Júnior, Brazilian painter
• December 7 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter
• December 23 – Dominique Antoine Magaud, French painter date unknown – François Salle, French realist painter