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.
• Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun publishes the second volume of her memoirs.

Awards

• Prix de Rome (for painting) – Thomas Couture

Works

Delacroix self-portrait

• Ditlev Blunck – Danske kunstnere på et romersk osteri ("Danish Artists at the Osteria la Gonsola, Rome")
• Eugène Delacroix
  • murals in Salon du Roi, Chamber of Deputies of France, Palais Bourbon, Paris (completed)
  • Self-portrait
• Benjamin Duterrau – portrait of Derrimut
• Caspar David Friedrich – Landscape with Owl, Grave, and Coffin
• Edwin Landseer – The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner
• John Martin
  • Manfred and the Witch of the Alps
  • Manfred on the Jungfrau
• Joseph von Führich – The Road to Emmaus Appearance
• Juan Mauricio Rugendas – Battle of Maipú
• Geskel Saloman – portrait of Smetana

Births

• January 27 – Tomioka Tessai, Japanese painter and calligrapher in Meiji period (died 1924)
• February 12 – Thomas Moran, painter of the Hudson River School (died 1926)
• May 8 – Alphonse Legros, painter and etcher (died 1911)
• June 8 – Ivan Kramskoi, painter and art critic (died 1887)
• July 4 – Carolus-Duran, painter (died 1917)

Deaths

• January 11 – François Gerard, painter (born 1770)
• March 8 – Domingos Sequeira, Portuguese painter (born 1768)
• March 31 – John Constable, landscape painter (born 1776)
• August - Henry Behnes, English sculptor (born 1800
• August 9 – Xavier Sigalon, French painter (born 1787)
• December 28 – Boris Orlovsky, Russian sculptor (born 1793)
• date unknown
  • Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger, Austrian portrait painter (born 1775)
  • Charles Henry Schwanfelder, English animal, landscape and portrait painter (born 1774)
  • Yi Jaegwan, Korean genre works painter in the late Joseon period (born 1783)