12.10.1799
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen thanks Abildgaard for his support. He tells him that many of the Roman art collection...
3.12.1799
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard reports that the works Thorvaldsen sent to Copenhagen have arrived safely. He complime...
4.4.1800
Thorvaldsen has received Abildgaard’s latest letter and thanks him for everything he does to prom...
10.4.1800
Sender Poul Scheel
Scheel sends greetings to his friends in Rome. He recommends the island of Menorca, which is said...
24.10.1800
Thorvaldsen reports that the transportation of two crates with artworks bound for the Royal Danis...
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Thorvaldsen regrets that his report to the Royal Academy has been delayed. He would have liked to...
22.4.1801
Thorvaldsen reports that the two crates with artworks bound for the Royal Danish Academy of Fine ...
20.3.1802
Thorvaldsen reports that Captain Berger has agreed to ship five crates with artworks, books etc. ...
10.5.1802
Recipient Johan Hartvig Ernst von Berger
Thorvaldsen asks Berger to remove the marble bust of Edmund Bourke, A900, from one of the crates ...
17.1.1804
Abildgaard is happy about Thorvaldsen’s success in Rome. He has received the busts Thorvaldsen se...
21.1.1804
Sender Herman Schubart
Schubart reports on his efforts to obtain commissions for Thorvaldsen from Denmark. Through her h...
Omkring 1.2.1804
Recipient Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart and his sister Charlotte Schimmelmann for the efforts they are making...
25.2.1804
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has left him incapable of wor...
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has...
Third draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has ...
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has ...
6.3.1804
Sender Fonden ad usus publicos
The foundation ad usus publicos grants Thorvaldsen 300 Danish rix-dollars due to his progress in ...
29.12.1804
Abildgaard recommends the bearer of the letter, Carl Christian Seydewitz, to Thorvaldsen. He comm...
31.1.1805
Abildgaard discusses the payment for the transportation of the crates Thorvaldsen has sent to Cop...
28.7.1805
Draft: Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that the block of marble he has ordered will be sent in the...
Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that the block of marble he has ordered will be sent in the autumn...
19.10.1805
Abildgaard is sympathetic to the idea that Thorvaldsen should remain in Rome for the time being b...
18.6.1806
Thorvaldsen thanks Abildgaard for helping Gotskalk Thorvaldsen. The war has given Thorvaldsen fin...
Draft letter, see the general comment.
14.8.1806
Abildgaard informs Thorvaldsen that he will receive his salary as a professor of the Royal Academ...
30.1.1807
Sender C.F. Høyer
Høyer writes that Thorvaldsen has received an instalment of 100 rix-dollars for the portrait bust...
11.3.1826
Sender H.F.J. Estrup
Recipient København Ordenskapitlet
The historian Estrup’s biography of Thorvaldsen for the Chapter of the Royal Orders of Chiv...