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1837 in art

List of years in art (table)

Events from the year 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.
  • June 1 – The Government-funded Normal School of Design, predecessor of the Royal College of Art, begins classes at Somerset House in London.<ref=>Isaac Edwards Clarke (1885). Art and Industry: (1885) Drawing in the public schools. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 725.</ref>
  • June 10 – Galerie des Batailles at the Palace of Versailles in France, designed by Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine with Frédéric Nepveu for the display of sculptures and historical paintings, is opened.
  • July – Edward Lear leaves Knowsley Hall in England to travel to Rome.
  • Art Union of London founded.
  • Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun publishes the second volume of her memoirs.

Awards

Works

Delacroix self-portrait

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 44. Oxford University Press. 2014. p. 581. ISBN 0-19-861394-6.Article by V. Remington.
  2. ^ Jacobus Wilhelmus REGT (1867). Neêrlands Beroemde Personen, naar hunne geboorteplaatsen ... gerangschikt en beknopt toegelicht. p. 18.
  3. ^ Bryan, Michael (1889), Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves (ed.), Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z), York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, p. 8, retrieved October 31, 2012
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