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Presumably 1829
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Eliza Glenorchy?, A268.
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Presumably 1829
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John Campbell?, A303.
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Presumably 1829 - 1830
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Monument to Charles Drake Garrard and Wife, A620.
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Begun 1829
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Marianna Florenzi, A727.
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1829
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The Genius of Death for the Monument to Wlodzimierz Potocki, A627.
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1829
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Monument to Vaccà Berlinghieri, cf. A613, and the portrait medallion of Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri are executed in marble for Campo Santo, Pisa.
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1829
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Youth Leading a Horse, A512.
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1829
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Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia, A277.
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1829
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Vilhelmine, A195.
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1829
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Caroline von Humboldt’s marble version of The Goddess of Hope, cf. A47, arrives in Berlin. Today at Schloss Tegel, Berlin.
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1829
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Henry Labouchère commissions a colossal statue of Achilleus, which probably is not executed.
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1829
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Rembrandt Peale portrays Thorvaldsen (oil on canvas, 66×45 cm, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia).
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Not earlier than 1829
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The Genius of Death for the Monument to Wlodzimierz Potocki, A626.
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Beginning of 1829
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Artur Potocki, A291.
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Not later than 25.1.1829
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Charles Benet Drake Garrard commissions Monument to Charles Drake Garrard and Wife, cf. A620.
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28.1.1829
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Frederik 6.’s birthday is celebrated by the Danes living in Rome.
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Not later than 5.2.1829
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Baptismal Angel Kneeling, cf. A112 og Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, are cast in plaster and shipped to Denmark.
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7.2.1829
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At the theatre Argentina with Karl August Nicander. Learns that Pope Leo 12. is on his deathbed.
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18.2.1829
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Ludwig 1. of Bavaria visits Thorvaldsen in his studio and awards him the title of Commander of the Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown, N10, with the words: “The soldier is honoured on the battlefield, but the artist among his works”.
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Presumably 24.2. - 25.2.1829
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Part of Thorvaldsen’s collection of coins and books is stolen from Casa Buti. He discovers the theft some days later. The thief was C.H. Lorenzen.
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Spring 1829
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Alexander Murray commissions Napoleon Bonaparte, cf. A909.
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March 1829
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Caroline von Humboldt dies in Berlin.
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March - September 1829
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The Dance of the Muses on Helikon, marble relief, cf. A341. Probably occasioned by Elisa Baciocchi’s commission in 1813, location unknown.
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31.3.1829
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Thorvaldsen’s “museum” opens as part of the recently renovted Antiksal at Charlottenborg.
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Not earlier than April 1829
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The cast of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123, is sent from Gdansk to Warsaw, after which the bronze casting is begun.
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3.4.1829
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Grand Duchess Helene of Russia most probably visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop in the afternoon.
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Begun 7.4.1829 - completed 11.4.1829
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Helene is modelled, A247.
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6.5.1829
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Honorary member of The National Academy of Design, New York.
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11.5.1829
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Józef Poniatowski, bronze, cf. A123, is unveiled in Warsaw.
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20.5.1829
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A copy of Hope, executed by Friedrich Tieck for Caroline von Humboldt’s funerary monument, is unveiled.
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22.5.1829
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A committee led by John C. Hobhouse commissions the statue George Gordon Byron, cf. A130.
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7.6.1829
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The Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen is consecrated Whitsunday.
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26.6.1829
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Receives, through Torlonia, the first instalment (2,000 scudi) of the 9,000 Roman scudi that Christian (8.) Frederik borrowed from Thorvaldsen in 1821.
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August 1829
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Alexis de Chateauneuf commissions a bronze relief for a funerary monument.
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1.8.1829
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Awarded the title of Commander of the Order of Dannebrog.
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8.10.1829
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Receives, through Torlonia, the second instalment (2,000 scudi) of the 9,000 Roman scudi that Christian (8.) Frederik borrowed from Thorvaldsen in 1821.
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Not later than 22.10.1829
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The monument to Leuchtenberg (Eugène de Beauharnais) (original models A156 and A157) arrives in Munich.
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24.11.1829
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The Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop with his colleague Antoni Edward Odyniec, Marynia Zaleska and Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaia.
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18.12.1829
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Elected foreign honorary member of the Accademia dei Filergiti in Forli.
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