Events from the year1837 in art.

• January 20 – Death of theneo-classical architect SirJohn Soane gives effect to the creation of hisLondon house asSir John Soane's Museum.
• June 1 – The Government-funded Normal School of Design, predecessor of theRoyal College of Art, begins classes atSomerset House in London.^[1]
• June 10 –Galerie des Batailles at thePalace of Versailles in France, designed byPierre-François-Léonard Fontaine with Frédéric Nepveu for the display of sculptures and historical paintings, is opened.
• July –Edward Lear leavesKnowsley Hall in England to travel toRome.
• Art Union of London founded.
• Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun publishes the second volume of her memoirs.

• Prix de Rome (for painting) –Thomas Couture
• Knighthood –Augustus Wall Callcott

• Ditlev Blunck –Danske kunstnere på et romersk osteri ("Danish Artists at the Osteria la Gonsola, Rome")
• Léon Cogniet –The Battle of Heliopolis
• Joseph-Désiré Court –The Wedding of Leopold I of Belgium and Louise of Orléans
• 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 ofDerrimut
• 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
• Camille Roqueplan –Van Dyck in London
• Juan Mauricio Rugendas –Battle of Maipú
• Geskel Saloman – portrait ofSmetana
• Clarkson Stanfield –Beilstein on the Moselle
• Joseph von Führich –The Road to Emmaus Appearance
• David Wilkie
  • Josephine and the Fortune-Teller
  • Portrait of William IV

• January –Daniel Cottier, Scottish artist and designer (died1891)
• January 1 –Adolf Mosengel, German landscape painter (died1885)
• January 27 –Tomioka Tessai, Japanese painter andcalligrapher inMeiji period (died1924)
• February 12 –Thomas Moran, English-born American landscape painter of theHudson River School (died1926)
• March 27 –John MacWhirter, Scottish landscape painter (died1911)
• April 10 –Tranquillo Cremona, Italian painter (died1878)
• May 8 –Alphonse Legros, French painter and etcher (died1911)
• June 8 –Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (died1887)
• July 4 –Carolus-Duran, French painter (died1917)
• December 18 –Ernest Hoschedé, French businessman and collector ofImpressionist paintings (died1891)

• January 11 – BaronFrançois Gérard,French painter (born1770)
• January 29 –Andrew Plimer, British artist specialised in portrait miniatures (born1763)^[2]
• February 8 –Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar, Dutch engraver (born1775)^[3]
• February 17 –Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger, Austrian portrait painter (born1775)^[4]
• February 27 –Françoise-Jeanne Ridderbosch, Belgian painter and engraver (born1754)
• March 8 –Domingos Sequeira,Portuguese painter (born1768)
• March 16 –François-Xavier Fabre, French painter of historical subjects (born1766)
• March 31 –John Constable, English landscape painter (born1776)
• May 18 –Marguerite Gérard, French painter and etcher (born1761)
• August –Henry Behnes, English sculptor (born1800
• August 9 –Xavier Sigalon, French painter (born1787)
• September 18 –Pietro Fontana, Italian engraver (born1762)
• December 28 –Boris Orlovsky, Russian sculptor (born1793)
• date unknown
  • Juliane Wilhelmine Bause, German landscape etcher (born1768)
  • Thomas Richmond, English miniature-painter (born1771)
  • Charles Henry Schwanfelder, English animal, landscape and portrait painter (born1774)
  • Yi Jaegwan,Koreangenre works painter in the lateJoseon period (born1783)

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