1837 in art
# 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)
