1837 in art

• 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. • May 1 – 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 – 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==

self-portrait • Ditlev Blunck – Danske kunstnere på et romersk osteri ("Danish Artists at the Osteria la Gonsola, Rome") • John Burnet – Greenwich Pensioners Commemorating Trafalgar • 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 of Derrimut • William Dyce – Francesca da Rimini • William Etty – • Mars, Venus and Cupid • 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'' • Charles Robert Leslie – Florizel and Perdita • John Martin • Manfred and the Witch of the Alps • Manfred on the Jungfrau • Wijnand Nuijen – Shipwreck off a Rocky Coast • Henry William Pickersgill – Portrait of John Conroy • David Roberts – London from Fleet Street • Camille Roqueplan – Van Dyck in London • Juan Mauricio Rugendas – Battle of Maipú • Geskel Saloman – portrait of Smetana • Hendrik Scheffer – The Battle of Cassel • Clarkson Stanfield • Beilstein on the Moselle • On the Scheldt near Leiskenshoeck • 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) ==References==