Thorvaldsen and Danish Kingship
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See also: Christian 8.'s Table Decoration · Christian 8.’s Diaries and Travelogue · Christian 8.'s Loan at Interest · Christian 8.’s Journey Abroad 1818-1822
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Prime Minister Christian Ditlev Reventlow is considering having sculptures for the new Christians...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart and his wife have moved from Montenero to Pisa, where they have to spend the winter beca...
Herman Schubart
Christian 8.
Schubart assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Frederik 6.’s new...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Is considering interrupting his Grand Tour in order to go to Denmark and meet Thorvaldsen.
F. Kamp
J.L. Lund
Greetings to Thorvaldsen and Lund from the Duchesse of Augustenborg, Louise Augusta.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Has given up the thought of interrupting his Grand Tour in order to go to Denmark and meet Thorva...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian Frederik complains that Thorvaldsen is in Copenhagen now that he himself will soon be i...
Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Omnes
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Friederike Brun, Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Omnes
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Rides out (in vain) to meet Thorvaldsen, who is on his way to Rome.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen has arrived in Rome that day and has tea in the evening with Christian (8.) Frederik ...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Canova’s workshop and comments on the sculptor’s works. Then he visits Thorvaldsen’s works...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Celebrates Christmas Eve in the company of Thorvaldsen and other Danes in Rome. They have rice pu...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Thorvaldsen, who gets the idea of enlarging his professorial residence at the Academy of F...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen begins modelling the bust of Christian (8.) Frederik, cf. A197. The sculptor and the ...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen is working on the bust of Christian (8.) Frederik, cf. A197.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen is working on the bust of Christian (8.) Frederik, cf. A197.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen has finished modelling the bust of Christian (8.) Frederik, cf. A197.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Thorvaldsen in his workshop, where he meets the Russian general Alexander Ivanovich Osterm...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Plays host to a large company of noblemen and artists on the occasion of the Danish King Frederik...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Dinner with Vincenzo Camuccini, Thorvaldsen, C.F. Rumohr, and Luigi Godard. He has received trans...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Thorvaldsen, who is working on the bust of Caroline Amalie, cf. A754.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits the German painter Adolf Senff and then Thorvaldsen, who is working on a marble version of...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Dinner with Thorvaldsen, Vincenzo Camuccini, C.F. Rumohr, Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl von Baudis...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Christian (8.) Frederik visits Thorvaldsen with an offer of a commission for Hermann Ernst Freund...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen has modelled Christ, cf. A82 and the apostles Peter, cf. A86 and Paul, cf. A103 in clay.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Soirée with Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl von Baudissin, Friederica Juliane von Baudissin, Otto Fr...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Certificate of indebtedness. Christian (8.) Frederik borrows 9000 scudi at an annual interest of ...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Invitation to dinner with Christian Frederik and Caroline Amalie 6.4.1821 on the occasion of thei...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Has visited Thorvaldsen and is pleased with the sketch, Nysø34, for the statue of Caroline Amalie...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Leaves Rome after a long visit. Thorvaldsen and other artists take leave of the royal couple at L...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Payment of the biannual interest of 225 scudi on the loan of 9000 scudi, which Christian (8.) Fre...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Payment of the biannual interest of 225 scudi on the loan of 9000 scudi, which Christian (8.) Fre...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Payment of the biannual interest of 225 scudi on the loan of 9000 scudi, which Christian (8.) Fre...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits C.W. Eckersberg, enjoys his paintings, and sees his casts of Thorvaldsen’s portrait ...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Payment of the biannual interest of 225 scudi on the loan of 9000 scudi, which Christian (8.) Fre...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Payment of the biannual interest of 225 scudi on the loan of 9000 scudi, which Christian (8.) Fre...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Payment of the biannual interest of 225 scudi on the loan of 9000 scudi, which Christian (8.) Fre...
Christian Horneman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recommendation of the Danish architect Ole Jørgen Schmidt, who is going to Italy. Horneman’...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Payment of the biannual interest of 225 scudi on the loan of 9000 scudi, which Christian (8.) Fre...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Payment of the biannual interest of 225 scudi on the loan of 9000 scudi, which Christian (8.) Fre...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Johan Gunder Adler
Thorvaldsen calls in the loan of 9000 scudi which Christian (8.) Frederik took from him, cf. cert...
Efter 1.1.1827 - før 16.1.1827
Johan Gunder Adler
Christian 8.
Because of pecuniary difficulties, Adler suggests that Christian (8.) Frederik either 1) asks Tho...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Request for deferred payment of the loan of 9000 scudi, which Christian (8.) Frederik took from T...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen sends a list of the works that can be ready for transportation to Denmark in the spri...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Concerning the way in which Thorvaldsen’s loan to Christian (8.) Frederik is to be paid bac...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The letter expresses dissatisfaction with the number of works for the Church of Our Lady and Chri...
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In consequence of a royal ordinance, Thorvaldsen is asked by the Building Commission for the Chur...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen is very disappointed about the postponement of the shipment to Denmark of Thorvaldsen...
Ernst Meyer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Meyer’s receipt for a painting paid in advance by Thorvaldsen on behalf of Frederik 7.
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Adler is surprised that Thorvaldsen has not yet claimed the money which Christian (8.) Frederik h...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Johan Gunder Adler
Thorvaldsen announces that he now needs some of the 9000 Roman scudi which Christian (8.) Frederi...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Johan Gunder Adler
Third and last draft of the letter dated 9.5.1829.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Johan Gunder Adler
First and second draft of the letter dated 9.5.1829.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
For unknown reasons, the letter has been severely damaged. See instead the draft of the letter fo...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian Frederik has heard that the Alexander Frieze, cf. A503, and Christ, cf. A82, and John t...
Ernst Meyer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Meyer’s receipt for a painting paid by Thorvaldsen on behalf of Frederik 7.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
An accident with the marble for the portrait statue of Caroline Amalie makes it impossible for Th...
Redaktørerne ved Den Frisindede, NN
Omnes
The poem links Thorvaldsens return to Denmark and the plans for a Thorvaldsens Museum with the fi...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
H.N. Clausen, Jonas Collin, Just Mathias Thiele
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 4th part of 60 in all.
Tidligst 25.4. og senest 9.9.1839
C.W. Eckersberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Eckersberg tells Thorvaldsen that he may buy the painting Portrait of Frederik VI, B216, for 40 r...
C.W. Eckersberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Eckersberg’s receipt for the painting Portrait of Frederik VI, B216.
Christian 8.
Just Mathias Thiele
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Just Mathias Thiele
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thiele asks Thorvaldsen to execute a monument to the recently deceased King Frederik 6. He has su...
Det Kongelige Overhoffmarchalat
Bertel Thorvaldsen
An envelope addressed to Thorvaldsen. The letter itself, in which Thorvaldsen is invited to atten...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Det Kongelige Overhoffmarchalat, Christian Ove Haxthausen
Thorvaldsen regrets that he is unable to take part in the funeral of Frederik VI because of a bad...
P.O. Brøndsted
Christian 8.
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 10th part of 60 in all.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen has arrived in Copenhagen, but he cannot walk because of a bad foot.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen pays tribute to King Christian VIII six weeks after his accession to the throne. Thor...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Sends Just Mathias Thiele to Thorvaldsen with a written request that Thorvaldsen model the revers...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A written commission for Christian 4.’s monument for Roskilde Cathedral.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Entry stating that Christian VIII has sent Thorvaldsen a commission for the monument to Christian...
Adam Oehlenschläger
Caroline Amalie, Christian 8.
Poem to King Christian 8. and Queen Caroline Amalie on the occasion of their silver anniversary 2...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 12th part of 60 in all.
Johanne Luise Heiberg
Omnes
Heiberg discusses Thorvaldsen’s mental faculties and opposes the widespread idea that he is a naï...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 13th part of 60 in all.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8. asks Thorvaldsen to postpone his journey to Italy. He wants to visit him at Nysø at ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christine Stampe
At the request of Christian VIII, Thorvaldsen has decided to spend the winter in Denmark, thus po...
Christian 8.
Just Mathias Thiele
Has asked Thorvaldsen not to go to Rome this autumn. If he insists, the sculptor Wilhelm Matthiä,...
H.C. Andersen
Caroline Amalie, Christian 8.
Song for Christian VIII and Caroline Amalie on the occasion of their visit to Nysø on 3.10.1840.
N.C.L. Abrahams
Caroline Amalie, Christian 8.
Song for Christian VIII and Caroline Amalie on the occasion of their visit to Nysø 3.10.1840
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop at Charlottenborg and sees the original plaster model, Christ...
Rentekammeret
Christian 8.
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Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 19th part of 60 in all.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Before his departure for Rome, Thorvaldsen attends a farewell dinner with Christian VIII at Sorge...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Congratulations on the occasion of the marriage of Frederik (VII) and Caroline Charlotte Mariane ...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 27th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 32th part of 60 in all.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Information about the expected arrival at Leghorn of the frigate Thetis and about the sepulchral ...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
A short summary of a letter to Thorvaldsen with information about the frigate Thetis and the sepu...
Between 13.1.1842 and 1.2.1842
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Third draft of the letter dated 15.2.1842.
After 1.2.1842, before 15.2.1842
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Fifth draft of the letter dated 15.2.1842. The draft later became the object of an exchange betwe...
After 1.2.1842, before 15.2.1842
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Sixth draft of the letter dated 15.2.1842. The draft is considerably longer than the final letter.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen confirms receipt of the letter saying that a frigate will be sent to Italy in order t...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 39th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 47th part of 60 in all.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
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Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 51th part of 60 in all.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Wishes to see Thorvaldsen’s collection of paintings at Charlottenborg in connection with th...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 57th part of 60 in all.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Adam Oehlenschläger in audience recites a poem about Thorvaldsen.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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