1637 in art

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)

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