1637 in art

Events

• Claude Lorrain produces a series of etchings of a display of fireworks in Rome.

Works

Paintings

• Claude Lorrain – Seaport (Villa Medici) and Landscape with a Country Dance
• Pieter de Grebber – Elisha refusing the gifts of Naaman

Sculptures

• Bernini – Bust of King Charles I of England

Births

• March 5 – Jan van der Heyden, painter, printmaker and inventor (d. 1712)
• date unknown
  • Abraham Begeyn – Dutch painter of landscapes and cattle (d. 1697)
  • Niccolò Berrettoni, Italian painter (d. 1682)
  • Francesco Bonifaccio – Italian painter of the Baroque period (d. unknown)
  • Andrea Celesti, Venetian painter (d. 1712)
  • Jean-Jacques Clérion, French sculptor (d. 1714)
  • Martin Desjardins – French sculptor and stuccoist of Dutch birth (d. 1694)
  • Carl Ferdinand Fabritius, German painter (d. 1673)
  • Thomas Flatman (d. 1688), English poet and miniature painter
  • Giovanni Marracci, Italian painter (d. 1704)
  • Giovanni Moneri, Italian painter (d. 1714)
  • Michelangelo Palloni, Italian painter (d. 1712)
  • Niccola Ricciolini, Italian painter (d. unknown)
  • Girolamo Troppa – Italian painter of the Baroque (d. 1710)

Deaths

• July 12 – Willem van Haecht, Flemish painter (born 1593)
• September 14 – Theodoor Rombouts, Flemish painter (born 1597)
• December 27 – Vincenzo Giustiniani, art collector, patron of Caravaggio (born 1564)
• date unknown
  • Honami Kōetsu, Japanese craftsman, founder of the Rinpa school (born 1558)
  • Diego de Leyva, Spanish religious painter (born c. 1580)
  • Arent Passer, stonemason and architect (born c. 1560)
  • Domenico Robusti, painter (born 1562)
  • Cornelis Verbeeck – Dutch painter of the Baroque period (b. 1590)