1837 in art
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.
- 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
Works
- Ditlev Blunck – Danske kunstnere på et romersk osteri
- 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
- Eugène Delacroix
- *murals in Salon du Roi, Chamber of Deputies of France, Palais Bourbon, Paris
- *Self-portrait
- Benjamin Duterrau – portrait of Derrimut
- William Dyce – Francesca da Rimini
- William Etty –
- * Mars, Venus and Cupid
- * 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
- Charles Robert Leslie – Florizel and Perdita
- John Martin
- *Manfred and the Witch of the Alps
- *Manfred on the Jungfrau
- Wijnand Nuijen – Shipwreck off a Rocky Coast
- Henry William Pickersgill – Portrait of John Conroy
- Camille Roqueplan – Van Dyck in London
- Juan Mauricio Rugendas – Battle of Maipú
- Geskel Saloman – portrait of Smetana
- Hendrik Scheffer – The Battle of Cassel
- 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
- January 1 – Adolf Mosengel, German landscape painter
- January 27 – Tomioka Tessai, Japanese painter and calligrapher in Meiji period
- February 12 – Thomas Moran, English-born American landscape painter of the Hudson River School
- March 27 – John MacWhirter, Scottish landscape painter
- April 10 – Tranquillo Cremona, Italian painter
- May 8 – Alphonse Legros, French painter and etcher
- June 8 – Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic
- July 4 – Carolus-Duran, French painter
- December 18 – Ernest Hoschedé, French businessman and collector of Impressionist paintings
Deaths
- January 11 – Baron François Gérard, French painter
- January 29 – Andrew Plimer, British artist specialised in portrait miniatures
- February 8 – Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar, Dutch engraver
- February 17 – Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger, Austrian portrait painter
- February 27 – Françoise-Jeanne Ridderbosch, Belgian painter and engraver
- March 8 – Domingos Sequeira, Portuguese painter
- March 16 – François-Xavier Fabre, French painter of historical subjects
- March 31 – John Constable, English landscape painter
- May 18 – Marguerite Gérard, French painter and etcher
- August – Henry Behnes, English sculptor
- September 18 – Pietro Fontana, Italian engraver
- December 28 – Boris Orlovsky, Russian sculptor date unknown
- * Juliane Wilhelmine Bause, German landscape etcher
- * Thomas Richmond, English miniature-painter
- * Charles Henry Schwanfelder, English animal, landscape and portrait painter
- * Yi Jaegwan, Korean genre works painter in the late Joseon period