1737 in art

Events from the year 1737 in art.

Events

• The Salon of 1737 opens at the Louvre in Paris. It was the beginning of the Salon as a regular, scheduled event

Paintings

• Pompeo Batoni – The Triumph of Venice
• Canaletto – St. Mark's and the Campanile, Venice (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa)
• William Hogarth – The Good Samaritan
• Balthazar Nebot – Covent Garden Market
• Charles Parrocel – Halt of the King's Mounted Grenadiers
• Charles-André van Loo – The Grand Turk Giving a Concert to his Mistress
• Jean Baptiste van Loo – Portrait of William Murray
• Richard Wilson – The Inner Temple after the Fire of 4th January 1736/7

Births

• February 24 – Étienne Dantoine, French sculptor (died 1809)
• May 22 – Tethart Philipp Christian Haag, German-born Dutch portrait artist (died 1812)
• June 9 – Hendrik-Jozef Antonissen, Dutch landscape painter (died 1794)
• August 10 – Anton Losenko, Ukrainian-Russian Neoclassical painter who specialized in historical subjects and portraits (died 1773)
• August 11 – Joseph Nollekens, English sculptor, founder member of the Royal Academy (died 1823)
• September 15 – Jacob Philipp Hackert, landscape painter (died 1807)
• September 30 – Magdalene Bärens, Danish still life painter (died 1808)
• October 14 – José del Castillo, Spanish painter and a leader of the artistic movement "Illustrious Absolutism" (died 1793)
• October 30 – Niclas Lafrensen, Swedish genre and miniature painter (died 1807)
• November 7 – Johann Eleazar Zeissig, German genre and portrait painter, porcelain painter and engraver (died 1806)
• date unknown
• Philippe Curtius, wax modeller (died 1794)
• John Donaldson, Scottish miniature painter in enamel and water-colours (died 1801)
• Antonio Diziani, Italian painter of veduta, landscapes, and vistas (died 1797)
• Christopher Hewetson, Irish sculptor (died 1798)
• Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, Italian art biographer and painter (died 1795)

Deaths

• January 22 – Jean-Baptiste van Mour, Flemish-French painter (born 1671)
• March 17 – Hugh Howard, Irish portrait-painter and collector of works of art (born 1675)
• April 12 – Giovanni Battista Foggini, Italian sculptor of small bronze statuary (born 1652)
• June 4 – François Lemoyne, French rococo painter (born 1686)
• October 13 - Bernhard Vogel, German engraver (born 1683)
• December 3 – Giovanni Battista Tagliasacchi, Italian painter of historical scenes and portraits (born 1697)
• date unknown
• Francisco Bustamante, painter (born 1680)
• Evaristo Muñoz, Spanish painter (born 1684)
• Francesco Penso, Venetian sculptor (born 1665)

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