title: 1891 in art
text: # 1891 in art
  
  The year 1891 in art involved some significant events.
  
  ## Events
  
  * May 10 – Danish sculptor Anne Marie Brodersen marries her compatriot, the classical composer Carl Nielsen, in St Mark's English Church, Florence, the couple having first met on March 2 in Paris.
  * June – Sidney Paget produces his first illustrations for Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand Magazine.
  * Henri Matisse begins his studies at the Académie Julian.
  * Correspondence of Marie Bashkirtseff and Gustave Flaubert is published.
  * Paul Gauguin sails to French Polynesia.
  * Impressionist Armand Guillaumin wins 100,000 francs in the French state lottery and is able to devote himself to painting full-time.
  * Félix Vallotton makes his first woodcuts.
  
  ## Works
  
  * William-Adolphe Bouguereau
     * The Goose Girl
     * Work Interrupted
  * Frank Bramley – For Of Such Is The Kingdom Of Heaven
  * Edward Burne-Jones – Sponsa de Libano
  * Philip Hermogenes Calderon – St. Elizabeth of Hungary
  * Milly Childers – Hugh Culling Eardley Childers
  * Pierre Puvis de Chavannes – The Shepherd's Song
  * Édouard Detaille – Vive L'Empereur: charge du quatrième hussards à la bataille de Friedland, 14 juin 1807
  * Alexander Doyle – Statue of Henry W. Grady
  * Thomas Eakins – Miss Amelia Van Buren (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)
  * James Ensor – Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels)
  * Luke Fildes – The Doctor
  * Akseli Gallen-Kallela – Aino Triptych (second version)
  * Paul Gauguin – Tahitian Women on the Beach
  * J. W. Godward
     * Innocent Amusement
     * A Pompeian Lady
     * The Sweet Siesta of a Summer Day
  * Hubert von Herkomer
     * In the Black Country
     * On Strike
  * Carl Kahler – My Wife's Lovers
  * Benjamin Williams Leader – The Excavation of the Manchester Ship Canal: Eastham Cutting with Mount Manisty in the Distance
  * Sir Frederic Leighton – Perseus and Andromeda
  * John Henry Lorimer – The Ordination of Elders in a Scottish Kirk
  * Frederick William MacMonnies – Statue of James S. T. Stranahan
  * Jan Matejko – Constitution of May 3, 1791
  * Claude Monet
     * The Haystack Series
     * The Poplar Series
  * Edvard Munch – Melancholy (first version)
  * Mikhail Nesterov – The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew
  * Henrietta Rae – Miss Nightingale at Scutari (1854)
  * Ilya Repin – Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
  * Tom Roberts – A break away!
  * Henri Rousseau – Tiger in a Tropical Storm
  * Augustus Saint-Gaudens – Adams Memorial
  * John Singer Sargent – Egyptians Raising Water from the Nile
  * Giovanni Segantini
     * Midday in the Alps
     * The Punishment of Lust
  * Georges Seurat – completion of The Circus (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  * John "Hans" Staehli – Chiming Fountain, Portland, Oregon
  * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Moulin Rouge: La Goulue (color lithographic poster)
  * Edward Arthur Walton – Bluette
  * J. W. Waterhouse – Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses
  * George Frederic Watts – After the Deluge
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 21 – Franz Sedlacek, Austrian painter (died 1945)
  * February 13 – Grant Wood, American painter (died 1942)
  * April 2 – Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet (died 1976)
  * April 4 – Virgilio Guidi, Italian painter (died 1984)
  * April 7 – David Low, New Zealand-born editorial cartoonist (died 1963)
  * May 10 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (died 1934)
  * June 8 – Audrey Munson, American actress and artist's model (died 1996)
  * June 19 – John Heartfield, born Helmut Herzfeld, German graphic designer (died 1968)
  * June 30 - Stanley Spencer, English painter (died 1959)
  * August 15 – Iva Despić-Simonović, Croatian sculptor (died 1961)
  * August 25 – Alberto Savinio, Italian writer, painter and composer (died 1952)
  * September 22 – Alma Thomas, African American abstract expressionist painter (died 1978)
  * October 7 – Charles R. Chickering, American illustrator (died 1970)
  * October 11 – George Ault, American painter (died 1948)
  * December 2 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (died 1969)
  * December 9 – Mark Gertler, British painter (died 1939)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 27 – Jervis McEntee, American painter of the Hudson River School (born 1828)
  * January 30 – Charles Joshua Chaplin, French painter and engraver (born 1825)
  * January 31 – Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, French classicist painter (born 1815)
  * February 9 – Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (born 1819)
  * March 19 – Ernest Hoschedé, French businessman and collector of Impressionist paintings (born 1837)
  * March 26 – Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, Dutch watercolorist (born 1822)
  * March 29 – Georges Seurat, French Post-Impressionist painter (born 1859)
  * April 5 – Daniel Cottier, Scottish-born artist and designer (born 1837)
  * April 14 – Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve, Spanish painter, son of Juan Antonio Ribera (born 1815)
  * May 12 – Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, British Pre-Raphaelite watercolourist (born 1818)
  * May 16 – John Banvard, American panorama painter (born 1815)
  * September 5 – Jules-Élie Delaunay, French academic painter (born 1828)
  * September 6 – Elise Arnberg, Swedish miniaturist and photographer (born 1826)
  * September 9 – William Theed, English sculptor (born 1804)
  * September 11 – Théodule Ribot, French realist painter (born 1823)
  * September 15 – John Steell, Scottish portrait sculptor (born 1804)
  * October 30 – Truman Seymour, American soldier and painter (born 1824)
  