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Thorvaldsen as Mentor for Other Artists

1.7.1805

Herman Schubart

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Schubart has read in a newspaper that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of ...

14.8.1806

Nicolai Abildgaard

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Abildgaard informs Thorvaldsen that he will receive his salary as a professor of the Royal Academ...

13.3.1811

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Hans West

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

13.3.1811

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Hans West

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

11.5.1811

Christian Daniel Rauch

Caroline von Humboldt

Rauch writes that Thorvaldsen will contribute a relief to the planned monument to Queen Luise.

22.8.1811

Christian Daniel Rauch

Caroline von Humboldt

Rauch regrets that the painter Christian Gottlieb Schick is leaving Rome as he was always ready t...

11.10.1811

Christian Daniel Rauch

Caroline von Humboldt

Rauch writes that Rudolf Schadow has arrived in Berlin in a sorry state. Thorvaldsen has taken ov...

19.1.1812

J.L. Lund

Bertel Thorvaldsen

An attempt to persuade Thorvaldsen to visit Denmark. Information about life at home and greetings...

21.6.1813

Christian Daniel Rauch

Caroline von Humboldt

Thorvaldsen has praised Rauch’s sepulchral monument to Queen Luise. He is not feeling well ...

29.3.1814

Pietro Marchetti

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recommendation of the sculptor Pietro Tenerani.

22.6.1816

Wilhelm Heigelin

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recommendation of the Italian apprentice sculptor Antonio Calí.

22.6.1816

Christian Heigelin

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Heigelin supports his nephew William Heigelin’s recommendation of the Italian apprentice sc...

16.8.1817

Edward Dodwell

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Dodwell recommends the English sculptor John Gibson to Thorvaldsen. Gibson is to study in Rome fo...

24.12.1817

Giuditta Nalli

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Nalli acknowledges receipt of 4 scudi from Thorvaldsen.

1.1.1818

Lauritz Kruse

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Kruse encloses the prospectus in which the Danish population is invited to contribute to the acqu...

9.5.1818

Herman Schubart

Christian 8.

Schubart assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Frederik 6.’s new...

22.8.1818

Jørgen Koch

C.F. Hansen

Thorvaldsen is pleased that his native country now acknowledges his achievements with a large com...

2.1.1819

François-Joseph Navez

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Navez thanks Thorvaldsen for lending him a bust. He asks for another one or a basrelief to make d...

29.1.1819

François-Joseph Navez

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Navez asks Thorvaldsen to lend him a pair of antique busts. He also thanks him for the loan of Ho...

8.11.1819

Christian 8.

C.F. Hansen

Christian Frederik has considered to interrupt his grand tour of Europe temporarily in order to g...

11.7.1821

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Giovanni Edoardo De Pecis

Thorvaldsen writes to De Pecis to thank him for the portrait of Appiani made by the Milanese scul...

12.8.1821

Christian 8.

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Describes the inauguration of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, in Lucerne, w...

28.8.1821

J.C. Dahl

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Dahl asks Thorvaldsen to find acquaintances and work for Götzloff, who is coming to Rome to study...

10.10.1821

John Gibson

William Cavendish

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

14.3.1822

Jacob Ludwig Salomo Bartholdy

Johann Martin von Wagner

Bartholdy writes about Franz Erwein von Schönborn’s commission of a statue of Bacchus from the la...

6.7.1822

Johann Martin von Wagner

Franz Erwein von Schönborn

Wagner regrets his late answer regarding the completion of the Bacchus statue left by the late Ru...

22.7.1822

J.C. Dahl

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Dahl asks Thorvaldsen to find work for Carl Wagner and Ernst Oehme, who are coming to Rome. He al...

8.11.1822

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Fonden ad usus publicos

Thorvaldsen recommends the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop.

8.11.1822

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Fonden ad usus publicos

Thorvaldsen recommends the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop.

30.1.1823

Amedeo Lavy

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recommendation of the sculptor Giuseppe Bogliani.

31.1.1823

Rudolf Emanuel Wettstein

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Wettstein asks Thorvaldsen for a recommendation of the Swiss painter Hieronimus Hess. He has hear...

15.3.1823

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Rudolf Emanuel Wettstein

Thorvaldsen is pleased to recommend the artist Hieronymus Hess, whose talent, diligence and abili...

12.7.1823

Johann Leeb

Franz Erwein von Schönborn

Leeb writes that he has completed the model for his statue Sleeping Cupid and has had it cast in ...

15.11.1823

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Fonden ad usus publicos

Thorvaldsen recommends the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop.

19.11.1823

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Fonden ad usus publicos

Thorvaldsen recommends the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop.

Antagelig omkring 19.11.1823

Bertel Thorvaldsen

NN

Thorvaldsen recommends the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop.

15.12.1823

Accademia Fiorentina, Giovanni degli Alessandri

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Giovanni degli Alessandri recommends a student, Tommaso Gasperini, to Thorvaldsen. Gasperini is c...

18.3.1824

Gaetano Buzzi

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Buzzi recommends the young sculptor Ranieri Bartolini, who is coming to Rome to study sculpture. ...

19.3.1824

Pietro Benvenuti

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Benvenuti recommends the young Italian sculptor Ranieri Bartolini to Thorvaldsen and hopes that t...

20.3.1824

Trajan Wallis

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Wallis recommends the young sculptor Ranieri Bartolini to Thorvaldsen.

24.8.1824

Giovanni Battista Bassi

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The bearer of the letter also brings Thorvaldsen a painting. According to Thorvaldsen’s instructi...

15.10.1824

Tommaso Gasperini

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Gasperini regrets his delayed return to Rome. This is due to protracted periods of rain in Cologn...

8.12.1824

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Fonden ad usus publicos

Thorvaldsen recommends the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop.

8.2.1825

Johann Leeb

Franz Erwein von Schönborn

Leeb reports that his statue Sleeping Cupid has been completed in marble. He has been relieved to...

19.3.1825

Johann Leeb

Franz Erwein von Schönborn

Leeb fears that his report on the completion of the statue Sleeping Cupid has not been received. ...

20.3.1825

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Simon Moritz von Bethmann

Thorvaldsen recommends the painter Moritz Oppenheim warmly to Simon von Bethmann and takes the op...

20.6.1825

Moritz Oppenheim

Bertel Thorvaldsen, Emil Wolff

Oppenheim has returned safely from a journey to Northern Italy and the southern part of Germany. ...

27.12.1825

Tommaso Gasperini

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Gasperini sends New Year’s greetings to Thorvaldsen, thanking him again for his kindness to him w...

8.10.1826

Jacob Hofer

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

16.10.1826

Paolo Emilio Demi

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Demi asks Thorvaldsen to send a testimonial about a sculpture group which he has executed under T...

30.10.1826

Tommaso Gazzarini

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Thorvaldsen has failed to appear at a planned meeting with Gazzarrini, who therefore asks him to ...

25.11.1826

Christian 8.

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Christian (8.) Frederik wants to know which of Thorvaldsen’s works wil be sent home in the ...

17.2.1827

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound thanks Thorvaldsen for having taken on the Scottish sculptor Alexander R...

21.2.1827

Paolo Emilio Demi

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Demi asks Thorvaldsen to recommend him if Thorvaldsen himself does not want to accept the commiss...

25.4.1827

Johann Leeb

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Leeb thanks Thorvaldsen for his advice and his helpfulness. He is pleased to have settled in Muni...

3.7.1827

Giovanni Battista Bassi

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bassi recommends the Italian painter Pietro Paoletti to Thorvaldsen.

4.7.1827

Ditlev Martens

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Martens has returned from Sicily and Calabria and sends a detailed account of his journey. In spi...

29.8.1827

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Ditlev Martens

Thorvaldsen bears witness to Martens’ diligence and talent and warmly recommends him for fi...

Antagelig 1828

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Città di Torino

The commentary for this draft is not available at the moment.

Antagelig 1828

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Christian 8.

Thorvaldsen regrets that the Danish painter Andreas Ludvig Koop has not been admitted as a member...

1.1.1828

Tommaso Gasperini

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Gasperini sends New Year’s greetings to Thorvaldsen, thanking him again for his kindness to him w...

22.1.1828

Andrea Pozzi

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Pozzi asks if he may borrow a painting which Thorvaldsen owns, Praying Virgin, B16, as the bearer...

26.5.1828

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Maria Szymanowska

Thorvaldsen is pleased to hear that the crate with Nicolaus Copernicus and Szymanowska’s bu...

10.11.1828

Boris Orlovsky

Bertel Thorvaldsen

An emotional Orlovsky laments parting from Thorvaldsen, whom he sees as his father, his teacher, ...

Antagelig senest primo marts 1829

Carlo Poggi

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Poggi asks Thorvaldsen for work after a year of troubles has put him in a desperate situation. Ea...

1.4.1829

Jakub Tatarkiewicz

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Tatarkiewicz writes that there have been problems with the casting of Nicolaus Copernicus after t...

25.4.1829

Hermann Ernst Freund

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

21.5.1829

Adam Oehlenschläger

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Adam Oehlenschläger recommends the composer J.F. Frøhlich to Thorvaldsen. He is pleased that the ...

28.7.1829

NN

Omnes

The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.

4.10.1829

Bertel Thorvaldsen

NN

Recommendation of the sculptor Antonio Moccia, who, uder Thorvaldsen’s direction, has execu...

11.11.1829

Geltrude Versari

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Geltrude Versari asks Thorvaldsen to take good care of her son, Alessandro Manzoni, who is coming...

Antagelig 1830

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Jonas Collin

Thorvaldsen asks Jonas Collin to help the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop financially.

Antagelig 1830

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Jonas Collin

Thorvaldsen asks Jonas Collin to help the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop financially.

November 1830

Bertel Thorvaldsen

NN

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

1.11.1830

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Frederik 6.

Thorvaldsen recommends the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop to the King and suggests that he b...

11.11.1830

Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten, NN

Omnes

The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.

19.5.1831

Karl Viktor von Bonstetten

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bonstetten recommends the Swiss sculptor Raphael Christen to Thorvaldsen.

Efter 19.5. og antagelig før 3.7.1831

Karl Viktor von Bonstetten

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bonstetten thanks Thorvaldsen for allowing Rahael Christen to work for him in Rome, and he asks w...

12.6.1831

Anastasie de Circourt

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Anastasie de Circourt recommends the Swiss sculptor Raphael Christen to Thorvaldsen.

15.9.1831

Jacques-Ignace Hittorff

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Hittorff recommends the French architect Jean Pollet. He hopes to see Thorvaldsen and Rome again ...

12.12.1831

Christian 8.

Bertel Thorvaldsen

For unknown reasons, the letter has been severely damaged. See instead the draft of the letter fo...

12.12.1831

Christian 8.

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Christian Frederik has heard that the Alexander Frieze, cf. A503, and Christ, cf. A82, and John t...

Presumably not earlier than Christmas 1831

Giuseppe Mugnoz

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Mugnoz promises not to inconvenience Thorvaldsen again until after Easter, but he urgently needs ...

1832

Redaktørerne ved Dansk Litteratur-Tidende

Omnes

The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.

16.6 og 19.6.1832

Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten

Omnes

The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.

8.6.1832

Ignazio Francia

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Francia is delighted to hear that his son Alessandro has won first prize in sculpture at the Acca...

7.8.1832

Alexander Ritchie

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Ritchie asks Thorvaldsen to give a visiting Scottish painter a good reception.

16.8.1832

Adamo Tadolini, Antonio Tosti

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Tadolini asks Thorvaldsen to recommend him as a substitute professor at the Accademia di S. Luca ...

3.3.1833

Ignazio Francia

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Francia expresses his gratitude for Thorvaldsen’s teaching and support of his son Alessand...

6.4.1833

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Christian 8.

An accident with the marble for the portrait statue of Caroline Amalie makes it impossible for Th...

27.4.1833

Christian 8.

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Christian (8.) Frederik is looking forward to seeing Thorvaldsen again in Copenhagen in the autum...

6.12.1833

H.C. Andersen

H.C. Andersen

Andersen reads aloud from Agnete and the Merman to Thorvaldsen and other artists. Thorvaldsen, wh...

7.12.1833

H.C. Andersen

H.C. Andersen

Andersen has attended an evening of poetry reading at the Accademia Tiberina together with Henrik...

8.1.1834

H.C. Andersen

H.C. Andersen

Andersen has visited Thorvaldsen and was comforted and encouraged by him after having told him ab...

25.1.1834

Alessandro Antonelli

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recommendation of the sculptor Antonio Bisetti.

25.1.1834

Redaktørerne ved Wiener Zeitschrift

Omnes

The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.

28.1.1834

Ditlev Martens

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Martens’ receipt for a loan of 100 scudi from Thorvaldsen with his painting Michelangelo’s House ...

29.3.1834

H.C. Andersen

H.C. Andersen

Thorvaldsen has been for a walk with Andersen, holding his hand.

28.5.1835

Robert Schmidt von der Launitz

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recommendation of the American apprentice sculptor Thomas Crawford, who is coming to Rome. Launit...

2.1.1836

John Gibson

Edward Bulwer Lytton

Gibson wonders that John Lough neither visits other sculptors’ workshops nor receives visits in h...

14.12.1836

Benjamin Gibson

John Crouchley

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

1839 [1837]

A.F. Elmquist

Omnes

The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.

January-June 1840

Christine Stampe

Omnes

The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 11th part of 60 in all.

21.4.1840

Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt

Omnes

The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.

8.8.1840

Ditlev Blunck

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Blunck declares that the painting Madonna del Granduca, B35, shall remain in Thorvaldsen’s collec...

18.2.1841

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Just Mathias Thiele

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

May-June 1841

Christine Stampe

Omnes

The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 21th part of 60 in all.

13.5.1841

Carl Richardt

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Richardt asks Thorvaldsen to buy one of his paintings so that he can get money to go to Norway, w...

August 1841

Christine Stampe

Omnes

The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 29th part of 60 in all.

September 1841

Christine Stampe

Omnes

The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 31th part of 60 in all.

September 1841

Christine Stampe

Omnes

The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 32th part of 60 in all.

12.10.1841

Ludwig von Schwanthaler

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Schwanthaler recommends the young sculptor Friedrich Brugger to Thorvaldsen.

November 1841–January 1842

Christine Stampe

Omnes

The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 34th part of 60 in all.

2.12.1841

Constantin Hansen

Ludvig Müller

Hansen writes that Thorvaldsen has bought a painting by Adam Müller even though it is still unfin...

25.1.1842

John Gibson

Margaret Sandbach

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

21.5.1842

J.V. Gertner

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Gertner tells Thorvaldsen about his participation in the competition for the gold medal of the Ac...

Juni-oktober 1842

Christine Stampe

Omnes

The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 45th part of 60 in all.

6.6.1843

Johan Christian Theodor Bayer

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bayer asks Thorvaldsen to buy one of his drawings for a sum, which the sculptor finds suitable. H...

31.3.1844

Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten

Omnes

The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.

22.4.1844

Carl Dahl

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

Carl Dahl wants the remaining payment for the painting The frigate Thetis and the corvette Flora ...

27.6.1844

Fritz Thomsen

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

Thomsen requests permission to complete and receive payment for a painting of a battle scene whic...

April 1845 (September 1841)

Timothy Shay Arthur

Omnes

Description of Thorvaldsen’s visit to the sculptor Hiram Powers’ workshop in Florence...