1637 in art

• October 13 – English Royal Navy first-rate ship of the line 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 Image:Pieter Fransz. de Grebber 001.jpg|de Grebber, Elisha Image:Lorrain.seaport.jpg|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) ==References==