Thorvaldsen's Works, Reminders for
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Arnold Wallick
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Arnold Wallick sends greetings to Thorvaldsen from Rome and asks him whether the bust of Mathias ...
Irina Vorontsova
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Countess Vorontsova inquires about the progress of the sculptures she has commissioned and reques...
Patrick Moir
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Moir informs Thorvaldsen on behalf of Thomas Hope that the fourth and last payment for Jason with...
Irina Vorontsova
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Vorontsova is very impatient to receive the long-awaited artworks. Thorvaldsen has informed her a...
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The banker Torlonia requests the delivery of Thorvaldsen’s sculptures for Countess Vorontsova.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accademia di San Luca
Thorvaldsen protests that he is aware of his obligations towards the San Luca Academy even though...
Poul Scheel
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Scheel assures Thorvaldsen that he has not been forgotten in Copenhagen and asks him to remember ...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Irina Vorontsova
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Countess Vorontsova has written to Thorvaldsen several times without receiving an answer, so she ...
Antagelig tidligst december 1811, antagelig senest februar 1815
Conrad Rantzau
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rantzau asks Thorvaldsen to assist him in listing the works which he commissioned from Thorvaldse...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted advises Thorvaldsen to return to Denmark, at least for a year. He encloses letters for ...
J.C. Ulrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ulrich asks when the works commissioned by Alexander Baillie and Jørgen Knudtzon will be ready fo...
John Russell 2.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
John Russell, son of the 6th Duke of Bedford by the same name, asks Thorvaldsen to complete the p...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon writes that he has returned to Norway. He looks forward to seeing Thorvaldsen in Copenha...
John Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Russell asks Thorvaldsen to complete two reliefs, Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, and Priam Plead...
Luigi Porro Lambertenghi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Porro Lambertenghi regrets that Thorvaldsen has not been paid as agreed. He has now made new arra...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen has to postpone his trip to Denmark because he has to finish John Russell’s com...
Catharina di Branciforte
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Princess regrets that she has not heard from Thorvaldsen since her departure from Rome. She a...
Thomson Bonar
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bonar gives Thorvaldsen more details regarding the funerary monument to his son Thomson Henry Bon...
Adam Gottlob Müller
Jørgen Koch
Müller asks Koch to contact Thorvaldsen in Rome regarding the execution of the marble bust of Hen...
Atanazy Raczyński
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Raczyński sends part of the payment for Ganymede Offering the Cup, cf. A854, expressing his hope ...
Ludwig Fuhrmann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Fuhrmann asks Thorvaldsen to inform Atanazy Raczyński about the progress of Ganymede Offering the...
John Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Russell refers to his letter of 1.5.1818 regarding the shipment of the two reliefs that he has co...
Atanazy Raczyński
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Raczyński has spoken to Joh. Carl Löwe about the transportation from Rome to Poznań of the statu...
Agnete Marie Rosencrone
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Agnete Rosencrone asks Thorvaldsen to send the bust of Henrik Hielmstierne, cf. A210, to Denmark....
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller informs Pfyffer von Altishofen that Thorvaldsen has been ill and therefore has not begun w...
Thomas Hope
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thomas Hope urges Thorvaldsen to finish and deliver Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, commissio...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi presses Thorvaldsen for an answer concerning the monument to Thomas Maitland, cf. A258 an...
Heinrich Keller
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Keller presses Thorvaldsen for the completion of the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf....
Luigi Chiaveri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chiaveri reminds Thorvaldsen that Nicolaus Esterházy’s commission has to be sent off. Esterházy’s...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller complains that it is difficult to get Thorvaldsen to complete his work on the model for Dy...
Luigi Chiaveri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chiaveri reminds Thorvaldsen that he has promised to deliver a bust, probably of Nicolaus Esterhá...
Luigi Chiaveri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chiaveri asks Thorvaldsen to speak to Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia as soon as possible regarding Ja...
Sandsynligvis oktober 1819-august 1820
Adam Gottlob Müller
Rasmus Emil Bruun
Müller asks Bruun to contact Thorvaldsen regarding his marble bust of Henrik Hielmstierne, cf. A2...
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hobhouse introduces his compatriot Joseph Douglas Strutt, who is spending the winter in Rome. He ...
John Cam Hobhouse
Joseph Douglas Strutt
Hobgouse sends three letters that may be useful to him. He requests Strutt to ask Thorvaldsen to ...
Stanislaus de Chaudoir
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chaudoir inquires whether Thorvaldsen has had time to think about the commissioned monument to hi...
Lega Zambelli
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On Byron’s behalf, Zambelli thanks Thorvaldsen for having finished the bust and asks him to send ...
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Torlonia is disappointed that Thorvaldsen has not complied with the agreement to complete Jason w...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski refers to his letter of February 3rd with an enclosure concerning the funerary monume...
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hobhouse introduces a Mr. Harris, who is going to study in Rome. Hobhouse expresses an ardent wis...
Jørgen Conrad de Falsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Writing on an envelope, Falsen reminds Thorvaldsen that he has promised to make a sepulchral monu...
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Torlonia assumes that Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, is ready to be shipped as Thorvaldsen h...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski introduces Bernard Potocki, a nephew of Włodzimierz Potocki, who is coming to Rome. H...
Adam Czartoryski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czartoryski informs Thorvaldsen that Mokronowski died on October 19th, the very day of Józef Poni...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva reminds Thorvaldsen to send the marble busts of Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Am...
Francesco Tantini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mr. and Mrs. Tantini ask Thorvaldsen to make a plaster cast of the bust of their mutual friend, C...
Cecilia Tantini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Cecilia Tantini writes to convey Conrad Rantzau’s request to send his portrait bust, cf. A211, to...
Tekla Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tekla Potocka mentions that she has written three letters to Thorvaldsen without hearing from him...
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Torlonia has received several letters from Thomas Hope, who is impatient to have the statue of Ja...
Friedrich Bluhme
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Friedrich Bluhme has tried in vain to see Thorvaldsen personally and therefore writes on Tantini’...
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gunnerus informs Thorvaldsen that he has handed over his deed of gift of 24.5.1822 and the owners...
Leon Potocki
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Potocki urgently requests a definite date of delivery of the moulds for the equestrian statue of ...
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dahl sends a greeting through Johan Christian Fick and promises Thorvaldsen a painting.
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Narcyz Makowiecki
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Makowiecki reminds Thorvaldsen that he has not yet received the marble copy of the bust of Józef ...
Tekla Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tekla Potocka has written to Thorvaldsen from Poland but has not heard from him. She asks if he h...
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gunnerus tells Thorvaldsen that time is running out. In the past three years since Thorvaldsen do...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The room in which the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A505, is to be put up ...
Stanisław Grabowski, Józef Sierakowski, Walenty Sobolewski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The committee expresses great concern regarding the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A...
Edward Czarnecki
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czarnecki reminds Thorvaldsen that he signed a contract 30.9.1820 for a statue of Copernicus, cf....
Ferdinando Dôrhel
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of his client, Luigi Sommariva, Dôrhel presses Thorvaldsen for the remaining part of th...
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of Thomas Hope, Torlonia urges Thorvaldsen to finish the statue of Jason with the Golde...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
An inquiry about Thorvaldsen’s sculptural decorations for the Church of Our Lady and Christ...
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound thanks Thorvaldsen for having taken on the Scottish sculptor Alexander R...
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...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In consequence of a royal ordinance, the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace ask Thorva...
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of Thomas Hope, Torlonia urges Thorvaldsen to finish the statue of Jason with the Golde...
Antagelig 22.7.1826 eller 22.7.1827
Tekla Potocka
Anna Potocka
Tekla Potocka asks her cousin Anna Potocka for help concerning the funerary monument to her husba...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen has read a letter from Hermann Ernst Freund concerning the forthcoming transportation...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The ship owner L.N. Hvidt has informed the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace that the...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Cancellation of the commission for two marble candelabra which Thorvaldsen was to have executed f...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon reports that Thorvaldsen’s statues of Venus, A853, Ganymede Offering the Cup, A85...
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Ludwig Schorn
Schönborn has read that Thorvaldsen is in Munich, and therefore he would like Schorn to ask the s...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A follow-up to the letter of 21.8.1832, in which the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palac...
Anselmo Ronchetti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ronchetti has heard that Thorvaldsen’s son-in-law likes the boots. He is eager to see the b...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik Is pleased that Thorvaldsen intends to come to Copenhagen in the spring o...
Jan Radziwonski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dr. Jan Radziwonski forwards a letter from Zofia Potocka and reminds Thorvaldsen that Józefina Ma...
Anselmo Ronchetti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ronchetti takes advantage of Marco Viani’s departure from Milan to send a greeting to Thorv...
Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard is impatient for news from Thorvaldsen. He reminds him to send the marble relief The Gra...
Marie Lehmann, Bolette Puggaard, Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans Puggaard has heard that the relief The Graces Listening to Cupid’s Song, A601, is finished a...
Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard writes about all the preparations made in order to get Thorvaldsen and his works home wi...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Committee was pleased to receive Thorvaldsen’s last letter, not least because it reassured th...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Committee is pleased to accept Thorvaldsen’s proposal to execute the models for the Goethe mo...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Committee is pleased to have received Thorvaldsen’s sketch of the statue for the Goethe monum...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Committee has received Thorvaldsen’s new sketch for the Goethe monument. They fully approve o...
Helena Ponińska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ponińska has now waited six years for the sepulchral relief to her children. She has written more...
Johan Bravo
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bravo writes that Thorvaldsen has received a letter in Rome from Helena Ponińska. She points out ...
Christine Stampe
Jonas Collin
Stampe has received a letter from the German painter General C.W. von Heideck, in which he asks a...