1837 in art

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Events

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

Awards

• Prix de Rome (for painting) – Thomas Couture

Works

See also: Category:1837 paintings

• John Martin – Manfred and the Witch of the Alps

Births

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

Deaths

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