The year 1896 in art involved some significant events. Events January 24 – Painter Sir Frederic Leighton is created 1st Baron Leighton in the peerage of the United Kingdom one day before his death in London of angina pectoris. February – Edvard Munch moves to Paris and concentrates on printmaking. December – Walter Crane publishes Of The Decorative Illustration of Books, Old and New (printed by the Chiswick Press). A bout of typhoid fever puts an end to Maurice de Vlaminck's career as a cyclist. William Merritt Chase founds Parsons The New School for Design as the Chase School of Art in Greenwich Village, New York. At Giverny Claude Monet begins painting his Mornings on the Seine series, which will continue through 1897. Art student Henri Matisse visits Australian painter John Russell on the island of Belle Île off the coast of Brittany and is introduced to Impressionism and to the work of Vincent van Gogh. Interior design gallery Maison de l'Art Nouveau opens in Paris. Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, designed by Ödön Lechner, is completed. Max Beerbohm publishes Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen in London, his first collection of drawings. Bernard Berenson publishes Florentine Painters of the Renaissance. The Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers is founded. Hubert von Herkomer is made a knight in the United Kingdom. Works Michael Ancher – A stroll on the beach Harry Bates – equestrian statue of Lord Roberts Aubrey Beardsley – Illustrations to Pope's The Rape of the Lock Alfred Boucher – Volubilis (sculpture) Edward Burne-Jones (illustrations) and William Morris (type design and decoration) – The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, now newly imprinted (Kelmscott Press edition) Lovis Corinth – Self-portrait with skeleton Edgar Degas – Bathers (completed) Paul Dubois – Baptism of Clovis (sculpture in front of Reims Cathedral) Thomas Eakins – The Pianist Julian Fałat – Self-portrait with palette Luke Fildes – Frederick Treves Paul Gauguin Bé bé Te tamari no atua Self-portrait "près du Golgotha" Self-portrait for my friend Daniel Oyez Hui Iesu (carving) J. W. Godward Campaspe He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not Akseli Gallen-Kallela – The Defense of the Sampo Niels Hansen Jacobsen – Trold, der vejrer kristenblod (sculpture) Paja Jovanović – Migration of the Serbs Fernand Khnopff Caress of the Sphinx Posthumous portrait of Marguerite Landuyt Maximilien Luce Le bon samaritain Scène de rue à Paris Juan Luna – Ecce Homo Frederick McCubbin –