1637 in art

Events from the year 1637 in art.

Events

 * October 13 – English Royal Navy first-rate ship of the line HMS Sovereign of the Seas 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.

Paintings

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

Sculptures

 * Bernini – Bust of King Charles I of England

Births

 * March 5 – Jan van der Heyden, painter, printmaker and inventor (died 1712)
 * April 16 – Jean-Jacques Clérion, French sculptor (died 1714)
 * June 25 – Christophe Veyrier, French sculptor (died 1689)
 * December 12 – Cesare Gennari, Italian painter (died 1688)
 * date unknown
 * Abraham Begeyn, Dutch painter of landscapes and cattle (died 1697)
 * Niccolò Berrettoni, Italian painter (died 1682)
 * Francesco Bonifaccio, Italian painter (d. unknown)
 * Sigismondo Caula, Italian painter (died 1724)
 * Andrea Celesti, Venetian painter (died 1712)
 * Martin Desjardins, French sculptor and stuccoist of Dutch birth (died 1694)
 * Carl Ferdinand Fabritius, German painter (died 1673)
 * Vicente Salvador Gómez, Spanish Baroque painter (died 1678)
 * Giovanni Marracci, Italian painter (died 1704)
 * Giovanni Moneri, Italian painter (died 1714)
 * Pieter Mulier II, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1701)
 * Michelangelo Palloni, Italian painter (died 1712)
 * Niccola Ricciolini, Italian painter (d. unknown)
 * Girolamo Troppa – Italian painter of the Baroque (died 1710)

Deaths

 * January 3 - Daniel Rabel, French painter, engraver, miniaturist, botanist and natural history illustrator (born 1578)
 * March 6 - Crispijn van de Passe the Elder, Dutch publisher and engraver (born 1564)
 * July 12 – Willem van Haecht, Flemish painter (born 1593)
 * September 14 – Theodoor Rombouts, Flemish painter (born 1597)
 * December 27 – Vincenzo Giustiniani, art collector, patron of Caravaggio (born 1564)
 * date unknown
 * Honami Kōetsu, Japanese craftsman, founder of the Rinpa school (born 1558)
 * Diego de Leyva, Spanish religious painter (born c. 1580)
 * Willem de Passe, Dutch engraver and designer of medals (born 1598)
 * Arent Passer, stonemason and architect (born c. 1560)
 * Domenico Robusti, painter (born 1562)
 * Cornelis Verbeeck – Dutch painter of the Baroque period (born 1590)