Events from the year 1837 in art.
Events
Awards
Works
Births
- January â Daniel Cottier, Scottish artist and designer (died 1891)
- January 1 â Adolf Mosengel, German landscape painter (died 1885)
- January 27 â Tomioka Tessai, Japanese painter and calligrapher in Meiji period (died 1924)
- February 12 â Thomas Moran, English-born American landscape painter of the Hudson River School (died 1926)
- March 27 â John MacWhirter, Scottish landscape painter (died 1911)
- April 10 â Tranquillo Cremona, Italian painter (died 1878)
- May 8 â Alphonse Legros, French painter and etcher (died 1911)
- June 8 â Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (died 1887)
- July 4 â Carolus-Duran, French painter (died 1917)
- December 18 â Ernest Hoschedé, French businessman and collector of Impressionist paintings (died 1891)
Deaths
- January 11 â Baron François Gérard, French painter (born 1770)
- January 29 â Andrew Plimer, British artist specialised in portrait miniatures (born 1763)
- February 8 â Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar, Dutch engraver (born 1775)
- February 17 â Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger, Austrian portrait painter (born 1775)
- February 27 â Françoise-Jeanne Ridderbosch, Belgian painter and engraver (born 1754)
- March 8 â Domingos Sequeira, Portuguese painter (born 1768)
- March 16 â François-Xavier Fabre, French painter of historical subjects (born 1766)
- March 31 â John Constable, English landscape painter (born 1776)
- May 18 â Marguerite Gérard, French painter and etcher (born 1761)
- August â Henry Behnes, English sculptor (born 1800
- August 9 â Xavier Sigalon, French painter (born 1787)
- September 18 â Pietro Fontana, Italian engraver (born 1762)
- December 28 â 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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