1737 in art
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Events from the year 1737 in art.
Events
- The Salon of 1737 opens at the Louvre in Paris. It was the beginning of the Salon as a regular, scheduled event[1]
Paintings
- Pompeo Batoni â The Triumph of Venice
- Canaletto â St. Mark's and the Campanile, Venice (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa)
- William Hogarth â The Good Samaritan
- Balthazar Nebot â Covent Garden Market
- Charles Parrocel â Halt of the King's Mounted Grenadiers[2]
- Charles-André van Loo â The Grand Turk Giving a Concert to his Mistress
- Jean Baptiste van Loo â Portrait of William Murray
- Richard Wilson â The Inner Temple after the Fire of 4th January 1736/7
Births
- February 24 â Ãtienne Dantoine, French sculptor (died 1809)
- May 22 â Tethart Philipp Christian Haag, German-born Dutch portrait artist (died 1812)
- June 9 â Hendrik-Jozef Antonissen, Dutch landscape painter (died 1794)
- August 10 â Anton Losenko, Ukrainian-Russian Neoclassical painter who specialized in historical subjects and portraits (died 1773)
- August 11 â Joseph Nollekens, English sculptor, founder member of the Royal Academy (died 1823)
- September 15 â Jacob Philipp Hackert, landscape painter (died 1807)[3]
- September 30 â Magdalene Bärens, Danish still life painter (died 1808)
- October 14 â José del Castillo, Spanish painter and a leader of the artistic movement "Illustrious Absolutism" (died 1793)
- October 30 â Niclas Lafrensen, Swedish genre and miniature painter (died 1807)
- November 7 â Johann Eleazar Zeissig, German genre and portrait painter, porcelain painter and engraver (died 1806)
- date unknown
- Philippe Curtius, wax modeller (died 1794)
- John Donaldson, Scottish miniature painter in enamel and water-colours (died 1801)
- Antonio Diziani, Italian painter of veduta, landscapes, and vistas (died 1797)
- Christopher Hewetson, Irish sculptor (died 1798)
- Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, Italian art biographer and painter (died 1795)
Deaths
- January 22 â Jean-Baptiste van Mour, Flemish-French painter (born 1671)[4]
- March 17 â Hugh Howard, Irish portrait-painter and collector of works of art (born 1675)
- April 12 â Giovanni Battista Foggini, Italian sculptor of small bronze statuary (born 1652)
- June 4 â François Lemoyne, French rococo painter (born 1686)
- October 13 - Bernhard Vogel, German engraver (born 1683)
- December 3 â Giovanni Battista Tagliasacchi, Italian painter of historical scenes and portraits (born 1697)[5]
- date unknown
- Francisco Bustamante, painter (born 1680)
- Evaristo Muñoz, Spanish painter (born 1684)
- Francesco Penso, Venetian sculptor (born 1665)