• Source: 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")
      Léon Cogniet – The Battle of Heliopolis
      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
      Nicolas Gosse – Napoleon Receiving the Queen of Prussia at Tilsit
      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
      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)


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