1837 in art explained
Events from the year 1837 in art.
Events
Awards
Works
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)[2]
- February 8 – Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar, Dutch engraver (born 1775)[3]
- 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
Notes and References
- Book: Isaac Edwards Clarke. Art and Industry: (1885) Drawing in the public schools. 1885. U.S. Government Printing Office. 725.
- Book: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 44. 2014. Oxford University Press. 581. 0-19-861394-6. Article by V. Remington.
- Book: Jacobus Wilhelmus REGT. Neêrlands Beroemde Personen, naar hunne geboorteplaatsen ... gerangschikt en beknopt toegelicht. 1867. 18.