Overview of the events of 1891 in art
The year 1891 in art involved some significant events.
Events
Works
Henri Rousseau – Tiger in a Tropical StormBirths
- 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)
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