June – The group Boadicea and Her Daughters (1856–83) by Thomas Thornycroft (died 1885) is cast in bronze and erected on the Victoria Embankment in London.
July – Cecil and Wilfred Phillips open the Leicester Galleries in Leicester Square, London.
September – Paul Cézanne's final studio, at Les Lauves, commanding a view of Montagne Sainte-Victoire, is completed.
Early October – Beatrix Potter's first children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit, with her own colour illustrations (originally published privately a year earlier), is first published in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co in London. By the end of the year it sells 28,000 copies.
Georges Braque begins his studies at the Academie Humbert, where he meets Marie Laurencin and Francis Picabia.
The studio La Ruche is established in the 15th arrondissement of Paris by the sculptor Alfred Boucher to provide accommodation for impoverished young artists.
Claude Monet begins his Water Lilies series of paintings in his garden at Giverny.
Helen Allingham – View of Blackdown
Frank Weston Benson – Eleanor Holding a Shell
Pierre Bonnard – The Terrasse Children with Black Dog
Thomas Eakins – Self-portrait
J. W. Godward
Ionian Dancing Girl
An Italian Girl's Head
Vilhelm Hammershøi – Five Portraits
Gwen John – Self-Portrait
Gustav Klimt
Beethoven Frieze (Secession hall (Austria))
Emilie Flöge
Max Liebermann – Terrace at the Restaurant Jacob in Niestedten on the Elbe
Margaret MacDonald
Oh ye, all ye that walk in Willowood (gesso panel for Willow Tearooms, Glasgow)
The Red Rose and the White Rose
Jacek Malczewski – Angel of Death
Henri Matisse – Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi
William Orpen – The Chess Players
Walter Osborne – Tea in the Garden
Pablo Picasso – Femme aux Bras Croisés
William Blake Richmond – Hera in the House of Hephaistos
Auguste Rodin – The Thinker (bronze)
Rudolf Siemering – Bison (bronze, Berlin)
Max Slevogt – The Singer Francisco D'Andrade as Don Giovanni in Mozart's Opera ("The White d'Andrade")
Alfred Stieglitz – photographs
The Hand of Man
Spring Showers, The Coach
Henry Scott Tuke – Ruby, Gold and Malachite
John William Waterhouse – The Missal
George Frederic Watts – Physical Energy (original bronze cast, sent to southern Africa)
Stanisław Wyspiański – Self-portrait
January 15 – Paul Kelpe, German-born American painter (died 1985)
January 19 – David Olère, Polish-born Jewish French painter (died 1985)
January 30 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (died 1983)
February 20 – Ansel Adams, American photographer (died 1984)
February 24 – Nedeljko Gvozdenović, Serbian painter (died 1988)
February 26 – Jean Bruller, French writer and illustrator (died 1991)
February 27 – Ľudovít Fulla, Slovak painter, graphic artist, illustrator, stage designer and art teacher (died 1980)
March 3 – Isabel Bishop, American painter and graphic artist (died 1988)
March 16 – Lucie Rie, Austrian-born British studio potter (died 1995)
April 2 – Jan Tschichold, German typographer, book designer, teacher and writer (died 1974)
April 26 – Isaac Soyer, Russian-born American painter, (died 1981)
May 24 – Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (died 2004)
August 5 – I. Rice Pereira, painter (died 1971)
September 2 – Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer, artist and historian (died 1973)
September 10 – Lee Gatch, painter and muralist (died 1968)
September 18 – Pietro Pezzati, American painter (died 1993)
September 28 – Kenzo Okada, painter (died 1982)
October 10 – Dick Ket, painter (died 1940)
November 4 – Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, French photographer and ethnographer (died 1996)
November 11 – Ernő Goldfinger, Hungarian-born architect and furniture designer (died 1987)
November 21 – Marko Čelebonović, Serbian painter (died 1986)
December 8 – Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (died 1982)
Situ Qiao, Chinese painter (died 1958)
January 6 – Lars Hertervig, Norwegian painter (b. 1830)
February 7 – Thomas Sidney Cooper, painter of farm scenes (b. 1803)
February 18 – Albert Bierstadt, painter (b. 1830)
March 21 – Vincenzo Cabianca, Italian painter (b. 1827)
April 12 – Ernest Gambart, art dealer (b. 1814)
April 15 – Jules Dalou, sculptor (b. 1838)
May 20 – Matthew Ridley Corbet, neoclassical painter (b. 1850)
June 11 – Otto Eckmann, German painter and graphic artist (b. 1865)
August 8
James Tissot, painter (b. 1836)
John Henry Twachtman, American impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony
December 7 – Thomas Nast, cartoonist (b. 1840)
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