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.
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
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
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
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)
August 25 – Alberto Savinio, Italian writer, painter and composer (died 1952)
October 7 – Charles R. Chickering, American illustrator (died 1970)
October 11 – George Ault, painter (died 1948)
December 2 – Otto Dix, painter and graphic artist (died 1969)
December 9 – Mark Gertler, British painter (died 1939)
date unknown – Franz Sedlacek, Austrian painter (died 1945)
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 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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