The year 1899 in art involved some significant events.
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- January 20
- February 15
- February 22 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (died 1986)
- March 20 – G. David Thompson, American industrialist and collector of modern art (died 1965)
- April 3 – Borislav Bogdanović, Serbian portraitist (died 1970)
- April 27 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist and animator (died 1994)
- May 22
- June 2 – Lotte Reiniger, German silhouette animator and film director (died 1981)
- June 12 – Anni Albers, born Annelise Fleischmann, German-born textile artist and printmaker (died 1994)
- July 3 – Else Halling, Norwegian tapestry weaver (died 1987)
- July 16 – Božidar Jakac, Slovene painter and graphic artist (died 1989)
- July (unknown day) - Isaac Frenkel Frenel, Israeli French painter and sculptor (died 1981)
- August 10 – Margarete Heymann, German-born ceramic artist (died 1990)
- August 19 – Bradley Walker Tomlin, American painter (died 1955)
- September 9 – Brassaï, Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker (died 1984)
- September 24 – William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (died 1970)
- December 4 – Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, German avant-garde painter (euthanized 1940)
- December 25 – Raphael Soyer, Russian-born American painter (died 1987)
- January 29 – Alfred Sisley, French Impressionist painter (born 1839)
- January 30 – Harry Bates, English sculptor (born 1850)
- March 27 – Myles Birket Foster, English illustrator and watercolour painter (born 1825)
- May 25 – Rosa Bonheur, French painter (born 1822)
- July 29 – Adolf Schreyer, German painter (born 1828)
- August 22 – Caspar Buberl, American sculptor (born 1834)
- November 13 – José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Brazilian painter (born 1850)
- December 7 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter (born 1857)
- December 23 – Dominique Antoine Magaud, French painter (born 1817)
- date unknown – François Salle, French realist painter (born 1839)