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.
 * 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

 * Prix de Rome (for painting) – Thomas Couture
 * Knighthood – Augustus Wall Callcott

Works

 * Ditlev Blunck – Danske kunstnere på et romersk osteri ("Danish Artists at the Osteria la Gonsola, Rome")
 * 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
 * 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
 * Juan Mauricio Rugendas – Battle of Maipú
 * Geskel Saloman – portrait of Smetana
 * Joseph von Führich – The Road to Emmaus Appearance
 * Sir 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)
 * February 8 – Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar, Dutch engraver (born 1775)
 * February 17 – Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger, Austrian portrait painter (born 1775)
 * 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)