1837 in art
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Events from the year 1837 in art.
Events
- January 20 – Death of the neo-classical architect Sir John Soane gives effect to the creation of his London house as Sir John Soane's Museum.
- May 1 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1837 opens at the National Gallery in London, the first to be held following the Academy's move from its former home Somerset House
- June 1 – The Government-funded Normal School of Design, predecessor of the Royal College of Art, begins classes at Somerset House in London.{{cite book|author=Isaac Edwards Clarke|title=Art and Industry: (1885) Drawing in the public schools|url=https://archive.org/details/artandindustry00unkngoog|year=1885|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=[https://archive.org/details/artandindustry00unkngoog/page/n878 725]}}
- June 10 – Galerie des Batailles at the Palace of Versailles in France, designed by Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine with Frédéric Nepveu for the display of sculptures and historical paintings, is opened.
- July – Edward Lear leaves Knowsley Hall in England to travel to Rome.
- Art Union of London founded.
- Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun publishes the second volume of her memoirs.
Awards
- Prix de Rome (for painting) – Thomas Couture
- Knighthood – Augustus Wall Callcott
Works
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- Ditlev Blunck – Danske kunstnere på et romersk osteri ("Danish Artists at the Osteria la Gonsola, Rome")
- Léon Cogniet – The Battle of Heliopolis
- Joseph-Désiré Court –The Wedding of Leopold I of Belgium and Louise of Orléans
- David d'Angers – Philopoemen Wounded (sculpture)
- Eugène Delacroix
- murals in Salon du Roi, Chamber of Deputies of France, Palais Bourbon, Paris (completed)
- Self-portrait
- Benjamin Duterrau – portrait of Derrimut
- William Dyce – Francesca da Rimini
- William Etty – The Sirens and Ulysses
- Caspar David Friedrich – Landscape with Owl, Grave, and Coffin
- Nicolas Gosse – Napoleon Receiving the Queen of Prussia at Tilsit
- Edwin Landseer – The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner
- John Martin
- Manfred and the Witch of the Alps
- Manfred on the Jungfrau
- Wijnand Nuijen – Shipwreck off a Rocky Coast
- Camille Roqueplan – Van Dyck in London
- Juan Mauricio Rugendas – Battle of Maipú
- Geskel Saloman – portrait of Smetana
- Clarkson Stanfield
- Beilstein on the Moselle
- On the Scheldt near Leiskenshoeck
- Joseph von Führich – The Road to Emmaus Appearance
- David Wilkie
- Josephine and the Fortune-Teller
- Portrait of William IV
Births
- January – Daniel Cottier, Scottish artist and designer (died 1891)
- January 1 – Adolf Mosengel, German landscape painter (died 1885)
- January 27 – Tomioka Tessai, Japanese painter and calligrapher in Meiji period (died 1924)
- February 12 – Thomas Moran, English-born American landscape painter of the Hudson River School (died 1926)
- March 27 – John MacWhirter, Scottish landscape painter (died 1911)
- April 10 – Tranquillo Cremona, Italian painter (died 1878)
- May 8 – Alphonse Legros, French painter and etcher (died 1911)
- June 8 – Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (died 1887)
- July 4 – Carolus-Duran, French painter (died 1917)
- December 18 – Ernest Hoschedé, French businessman and collector of Impressionist paintings (died 1891)
Deaths
- January 11 – Baron François Gérard, French painter (born 1770)
- January 29 – Andrew Plimer, British artist specialised in portrait miniatures (born 1763){{cite book|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 44|year=2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=581|isbn=0-19-861394-6}}Article by V. Remington.
- February 8 – Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar, Dutch engraver (born 1775){{cite book|author=Jacobus Wilhelmus REGT|title=Neêrlands Beroemde Personen, naar hunne geboorteplaatsen ... gerangschikt en beknopt toegelicht|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1_5ZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA18|year=1867|pages=18}}
- February 17 – Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger, Austrian portrait painter (born 1775){{citation | first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1889| title=Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical |volume=II L-Z | editor = Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves| page= 8| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Michael+Bryan+Painters+Engravers#PPP7,M1| author-link=Michael Bryan (art historian)| access-date=October 31, 2012}}
- February 27 – Françoise-Jeanne Ridderbosch, Belgian painter and engraver (born 1754)
- March 8 – Domingos Sequeira, Portuguese painter (born 1768)
- March 16 – François-Xavier Fabre, French painter of historical subjects (born 1766)
- March 31 – John Constable, English landscape painter (born 1776)
- May 18 – Marguerite Gérard, French painter and etcher (born 1761)
- August – Henry Behnes, English sculptor (born 1800
- August 9 – Xavier Sigalon, French painter (born 1787)
- September 18 – Pietro Fontana, Italian engraver (born 1762)
- December 28 – Boris Orlovsky, Russian sculptor (born 1793)
- date unknown
- Juliane Wilhelmine Bause, German landscape etcher (born 1768)
- Thomas Richmond, English miniature-painter (born 1771)
- Charles Henry Schwanfelder, English animal, landscape and portrait painter (born 1774)
- Yi Jaegwan, Korean genre works painter in the late Joseon period (born 1783)