The year 1899 in art involved some significant events.

• December 15 – Glasgow School of Art opens its new building, the most notable work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. ^[1]
• Camille Pissarro takes an apartment overlooking the Tuileries Garden in Paris and produces a series of paintings of the view.

• José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior – Saudade
• Wilhelm Amberg – Lost in Thoughts (approx. date)
• Ottó Baditz – Women in the Prison
• Louis-Ernest Barrias – Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science
• George Edwin Bissell – Statue of Chester A. Arthur (bronze, New York City)
• Pierre Bonnard – Little Girl with a Cat
• Léon Bonnat – Marie Georgine de Ligne
• Jules Dalou – Monument à Alphand (Paris)
• Thomas Eakins
  • Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams (first version)
  • Wrestlers
• Jean Leon Gerome Ferris – Signing the Mayflower Compact
• Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter – Equestrian statue of Ulysses S. Grant
• Paul Gauguin – Two Tahitian Women
• J. W. Godward
  • The Bouquet
  • The Delphic Oracle
  • The Mirror
  • The Signal
• William Harnett – Violin
• Winslow Homer – The Gulf Stream
• William Holman Hunt – The Miracle of the Holy Fire
• Peder Severin Krøyer – Summer evening by Skagen's beach: Artist and his wife
• Constantin Meunier – The Horse at the Pond ( Brussels)
• Claude Monet – Charing Cross Bridge ( Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid)
• Edvard Munch – The Dance of Life
• John F. Peto – Still life with Mug, Pipe and Book
• Maurice Prendergast – Splash of Sunshine and Rain
• Mykola Pymonenko – A Victim of Fanaticism
• Lionel Royer - Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar
• John Singer Sargent – The Wyndham Sisters
• Vardges Sureniants – After the Massacre
• Leon Wyczółkowski – Irena Solska
• W. L. Wyllie – The Battle of the Nile

• January 20
  • Pierre Gandon, French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (died 1990)
  • Clarice Cliff, English ceramic artist (died 1972)
• February 15
  • Lillian Disney, American artist and wife of Walt Disney (died 1997)
  • Grethe Jürgens, German painter (died 1981)
• 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
  • Kosta Hakman, Serbian painter (died 1961)
  • Pan Yuliang, Chinese-born painter (died 1977)
• 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)