1737 in art

Last updated December 06, 2025

Events

The Salon of 1737 opens at the Louvre in Paris. It was the beginning of the Salon as a regular, scheduled event^[1]

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^[2]
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)^[3]
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)^[4]
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)^[5]
date unknown
- Francisco Bustamante, painter (born 1680)
- Evaristo Muñoz, Spanish painter (born 1684)
- Francesco Penso, Venetian sculptor (born 1665)

References

↑ Gardner, James. The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum. Grove Press, 2020. p.184-5
↑ Halt of the King's Mounted Grenadiers
↑ Charles Callahan Perkins (1887). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. Scribner. p. 195.
↑ Suraiya Faroqhi (2006). The Cambridge History of Turkey: The later Ottoman Empire, 1603–1839. Cambridge University Press. p. 443. ISBN 978-0-521-62095-6
↑ "Giovanni Battista Tagliasacchi". Casa D'Aste Capitolium Art. Retrieved 3 December 2025.

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[1] Gardner, James. The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum. Grove Press, 2020. p.184-5

[2] Halt of the King's Mounted Grenadiers

[3] Charles Callahan Perkins (1887). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. Scribner. p. 195.

[4] Suraiya Faroqhi (2006). The Cambridge History of Turkey: The later Ottoman Empire, 1603–1839. Cambridge University Press. p. 443. ISBN 978-0-521-62095-6

[5] "Giovanni Battista Tagliasacchi". Casa D'Aste Capitolium Art. Retrieved 3 December 2025.

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