1637 in art

Events

• October 13 – English Royal Navy first-rate ship of the line is launched at Woolwich Dockyard at a cost of £65,586, adorned from stern to bow with gilded carvings after a design by Anthony van Dyck.
• Claude Lorrain produces a series of etchings of a display of fireworks in Rome.
• Nicolas Poussin begins to paint the first series of Seven Sacraments.

Works

Paintings

• Cornelis de Baellieur
• * Interior of an Art Gallery
• Claude Lorrain
• * Landscape with a Country Dance
• * Seaport
• Pieter de Grebber – Elisha refusing the gifts of Naaman
• Rembrandt – A Polish Nobleman
• Anthony van Dyck – ''Prince Rupert of the Rhine''

Sculptures

• Bernini – Bust of King Charles I of England

Births

• March 5 – Jan van der Heyden, painter, printmaker and inventor
• April 16 – Jean-Jacques Clérion, French sculptor
• June 25 – Christophe Veyrier, French sculptor
• December 12 – Cesare Gennari, Italian painter
• date unknown
• *Abraham Begeyn, Dutch painter of landscapes and cattle
• *Niccolò Berrettoni, Italian painter
• *Francesco Bonifaccio, Italian painter
• *Sigismondo Caula, Italian painter
• *Andrea Celesti, Venetian painter
• *Martin Desjardins, French sculptor and stuccoist of Dutch birth
• *Carl Ferdinand Fabritius, German painter
• *Vicente Salvador Gómez, Spanish Baroque painter
• *Giovanni Marracci, Italian painter
• *Giovanni Moneri, Italian painter
• *Pieter Mulier II, Dutch Golden Age painter
• *Michelangelo Palloni, Italian painter
• *Niccola Ricciolini, Italian painter
• *Girolamo Troppa – Italian painter of the Baroque

Deaths

• January 3 - Daniel Rabel, French painter, engraver, miniaturist, botanist and natural history illustrator
• March 6 - Crispijn van de Passe the Elder, Dutch publisher and engraver
• July 12 – Willem van Haecht, Flemish painter
• September 14 – Theodoor Rombouts, Flemish painter
• December 27 – Vincenzo Giustiniani, art collector, patron of Caravaggio
• date unknown
• *Honami Kōetsu, Japanese craftsman, founder of the Rinpa school
• *Diego de Leyva, Spanish religious painter
• *Willem de Passe, Dutch engraver and designer of medals
• *Arent Passer, stonemason and architect
• *Domenico Robusti, painter
• *Cornelis Verbeeck – Dutch painter of the Baroque period