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.
July 3 – Paul Gauguin leaves France to settle permanently in Polynesia.
October – Edvard Munch exhibits an extended series of his Love paintings in Christiania.
November – Paul Cézanne has his first solo exhibition, at the Paris gallery of Ambroise Vollard.
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.
Aubrey Beardsley – Venus Between Terminal Gods (ink drawing)
Paul Cézanne
The Boy in the Red Vest
Still Life with Cherub (approximate date)
Edgar Degas
After the Bath, Woman drying herself (probable latest date)
Photographic self-portrait
Thomas Eakins – Portrait of Maud Cook
Paul Gauguin – Oviri (stoneware)
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
Winslow Homer – Cannon Rock
George W. Joy
The Bayswater Omnibus
Joan of Arc
Sir Frederic Leighton
Candida
Flaming June
Lachrymae
Listener
The Maid with the Golden Hair
A Study
'Twixt hope and fear
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 (Ashes)
Jealousy
Madonna
Self-portrait with a cigarette
Self-portrait with skeleton arm (lithograph)
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 ("The Death of the Gravedigger")
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 (bronze equestrian statue, Berlin)
Laurits Tuxen – The Wedding of Tsar Nicholas II
John Henry Twachtman – The White Bridge (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
Félix Vallotton – Clair de lune ("Moonlight")
W. L. Wyllie – The Opening of Tower Bridge
January 21 – Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (died 1972)
March 1 – Ogura Yuki, Japanese nihonga painter (died 2000)
March 4 – Mikuláš Galanda, Slovak modernist painter and illustrator (died 1938)
March 29 – Anne Redpath, Scottish still life painter (died 1965)
April 7 – Jim Ede, English art collector (died 1990)
May 8 – Georg Muche, German painter (died 1987)
June 3 – Frank McKelvey, Irish painter (died 1974)
June 5 – William Roberts, British painter (died 1980)
July 2 – Gen Paul, French painter and engraver (died 1975)
July 19 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (died 1953)
August 7 – Alain Saint-Ogan, French comics author and artist (died 1974)
August 17 – Talbert Abrams, "father of aerial photography" (died 1990)
November 1 – David Jones, British poet and painter (died 1974)
December 26 – Jefto Perić, Serbian painter (died 1967)
date unknown
Ilija Bašičević, Serbian painter and father of painter-sculptor Dimitrije Bašičević (died 1972)
Marguerite Huré, French stained glass artist (died 1967)
January 5 – Władysław Podkowiński, painter and illustrator (born 1866)
February 1 – Mary Thornycroft, sculptor (born 1809)
February 8 – Jean-François Portaels, painter (born 1818)
March 2 – Berthe Morisot, Impressionist painter (born 1841)
March 6 – Edwin Forbes, landscape painter and etcher (born 1839)
April 19 – Sir George Scharf, art critic (born 1820)
April 21 – Arthur Gilbert, painter (born 1819)
May 24 – Joseph Quinaux, landscape painter (born 1822)
September 21 – Silvestro Lega, painter (born 1826)
November 23 – Mauritz de Haas, painter (born 1832)
date unknown – Gaetano Milanesi, art historian (born 1813)
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