1737 in art

Events

• The Salon of 1737 opens at the Louvre in Paris. It was the beginning of the Salon as a regular, scheduled event

Paintings

• Pompeo Batoni – The Triumph of Venice
• Canaletto – St. Mark's and the Campanile, Venice
• William Hogarth – '
• Balthazar Nebot – Covent Garden Market
• Charles Parrocel – Halt of the King's Mounted Grenadiers
• Charles-André van Loo – '
• Jean Baptiste van Loo – Portrait of William Murray
• Richard Wilson – ''''

Births

• February 24 – Étienne Dantoine, French sculptor
• May 22 – Tethart Philipp Christian Haag, German-born Dutch portrait artist
• June 9 – Hendrik-Jozef Antonissen, Dutch landscape painter
• August 10 – Anton Losenko, Ukrainian-Russian Neoclassical painter who specialized in historical subjects and portraits
• August 11 – Joseph Nollekens, English sculptor, founder member of the Royal Academy
• September 15 – Jacob Philipp Hackert, landscape painter
• September 30 – Magdalene Bärens, Danish still life painter
• October 14 – José del Castillo, Spanish painter and a leader of the artistic movement "Illustrious Absolutism"
• October 30 – Niclas Lafrensen, Swedish genre and miniature painter
• November 7 – Johann Eleazar Zeissig, German genre and portrait painter, porcelain painter and engraver date unknown
• * Philippe Curtius, wax modeller
• * John Donaldson, Scottish miniature painter in enamel and water-colours
• * Antonio Diziani, Italian painter of veduta, landscapes, and vistas
• * Christopher Hewetson, Irish sculptor
• * Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, Italian art biographer and painter

Deaths

• January 22 – Jean-Baptiste van Mour, Flemish-French painter
• March 17 – Hugh Howard, Irish portrait-painter and collector of works of art
• April 12 – Giovanni Battista Foggini, Italian sculptor of small bronze statuary
• June 4 – François Lemoyne, French rococo painter
• October 13 - Bernhard Vogel, German engraver
• December 3 – Giovanni Battista Tagliasacchi, Italian painter of historical scenes and portraits date unknown
• * Francisco Bustamante, painter
• * Evaristo Muñoz, Spanish painter
• * Francesco Penso, Venetian sculptor