1837 in art
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Events from the year 1837 in art.
Events
- January 20 â Death of the neo-classical architect Sir John Soane gives effect to the creation of his London house as Sir John Soane's Museum.
- May 1 â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1837 opens at the National Gallery in London, the first to be held following the Academy's move from its former home Somerset House
- June 1 â The Government-funded Normal School of Design, predecessor of the Royal College of Art, begins classes at Somerset House in London.[1]
- June 10 â 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 â Edward Lear leaves Knowsley Hall in England to travel to Rome.
- Art Union of London founded.
- Marie Louise Ãlisabeth Vigée-Lebrun publishes the second volume of her memoirs.
Awards
- Prix de Rome (for painting) â Thomas Couture
- Knighthood â Augustus Wall Callcott
Works

- Ditlev Blunck â Danske kunstnere pÃ¥ et romersk osteri ("Danish Artists at the Osteria la Gonsola, Rome")
- John Burnet â Greenwich Pensioners Commemorating Trafalgar[2]
- Léon Cogniet â The Battle of Heliopolis
- Joseph-Désiré Court âThe Wedding of Leopold I of Belgium and Louise of Orléans
- David d'Angers â Philopoemen Wounded (sculpture)
- Eugène Delacroix
- murals in Salon du Roi, Chamber of Deputies of France, Palais Bourbon, Paris (completed)
- Self-portrait
- Benjamin Duterrau â portrait of Derrimut
- William Dyce â Francesca da Rimini
- William Etty â
- Caspar David Friedrich â Landscape with Owl, Grave, and Coffin
- Nicolas Gosse â Napoleon Receiving the Queen of Prussia at Tilsit
- Edwin Landseer â The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner
- Charles Robert Leslie â Florizel and Perdita
- John Martin
- Manfred and the Witch of the Alps
- Manfred on the Jungfrau
- Wijnand Nuijen â Shipwreck off a Rocky Coast
- Henry William Pickersgill â Portrait of John Conroy
- David Roberts â London from Fleet Street[3]
- Camille Roqueplan â Van Dyck in London
- Juan Mauricio Rugendas â Battle of Maipú
- Geskel Saloman â portrait of Smetana
- Hendrik Scheffer â The Battle of Cassel
- Clarkson Stanfield
- Joseph von Führich â The Road to Emmaus Appearance
- David Wilkie
Births
- January â Daniel Cottier, Scottish artist and designer (died 1891)
- January 1 â Adolf Mosengel, German landscape painter (died 1885)
- January 27 â Tomioka Tessai, Japanese painter and calligrapher in Meiji period (died 1924)
- February 12 â Thomas Moran, English-born American landscape painter of the Hudson River School (died 1926)
- March 27 â John MacWhirter, Scottish landscape painter (died 1911)
- April 10 â Tranquillo Cremona, Italian painter (died 1878)
- May 8 â Alphonse Legros, French painter and etcher (died 1911)
- June 8 â Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (died 1887)
- July 4 â Carolus-Duran, French painter (died 1917)
- December 18 â Ernest Hoschedé, French businessman and collector of Impressionist paintings (died 1891)
Deaths
- January 11 â Baron François Gérard, French painter (born 1770)
- January 29 â Andrew Plimer, British artist specialised in portrait miniatures (born 1763)[4]
- February 8 â Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar, Dutch engraver (born 1775)[5]
- February 17 â Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger, Austrian portrait painter (born 1775)[6]
- February 27 â Françoise-Jeanne Ridderbosch, Belgian painter and engraver (born 1754)
- March 8 â Domingos Sequeira, Portuguese painter (born 1768)
- March 16 â François-Xavier Fabre, French painter of historical subjects (born 1766)
- March 31 â John Constable, English landscape painter (born 1776)
- May 18 â Marguerite Gérard, French painter and etcher (born 1761)
- August â Henry Behnes, English sculptor (born 1800
- August 9 â Xavier Sigalon, French painter (born 1787)
- September 18 â Pietro Fontana, Italian engraver (born 1762)
- December 28 â 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)