1637 in art
# 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.

## Works

### Paintings

* de Grebber, Elisha
* Claude, Seaport
* 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)
