Events from the year 1837 in art.
Events 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
Jean Alaux – The Storming of Valencienneshttps://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE005896 Ditlev Blunck – Danske kunstnere på et romersk osteri ("Danish Artists at the Osteria la Gonsola, Rome") John Burnet – Greenwich Pensioners Commemorating Trafalgarhttps://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-151538 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) Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps – The Punishment of the Hookshttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-punishment-of-the-hooks-209361 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 Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux – The Capitulation of the Citadel at Antwerphttps://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE005496 Henry William Pickersgill – Portrait of John Conroy David Roberts – London from Fleet Streethttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/london-from-fleet-street-the-lord-mayors-show-98919 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)Article by V. Remington. 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)
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