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| Date | Events | Whereabouts | Works |
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| 1835 | Lyre, A708. | ||
| 1835 | The Genius of Poetry, A526. | ||
| 1835 | Receives a visit from the French author Alexandre Dumas père during the latter’s journey through Italy. | ||
| 1835 - 1836 | Charlotte Dorothea Fischer, A871. | ||
| 1835 - 1846 | Thorvaldsen’s “Pre-Museum” at Christiansborg Palace. | ||
| Presumably completed January 1835 | Horace Vernet paints Portrait of Thorvaldsen modelling the bust of Vernet, B95. | ||
| January 1835 | The marble version of George Gordon Byron, AX682, arrives in London, but is not placed in Westminster Abbey due to controversies about Byron’s reputation. | ||
| 28.1.1835 | Frederik 6.’s birthday is celebrated by Danes in Rome. A song by Ludvig Bødtcher is sung. | ||
| 31.1.1835 | Attends Horace Vernet’s farewell party in the Palazzo Ruspoli. Vernet is fined 100 scudi for breaking the fast. | ||
| Beginning of February 1835 | Horace Vernet leaves Rome. | ||
| 18.2.1835 | Possibly at the theatre to see Wilhelm Christoph Leonhard Gerhard’s play Der Jahrmarkt zu Borgo di Trastullo. | ||
| 8.3.1835 | Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday is celebrated by the Cociety of Danish Romans at Christianshavns Borgerdydsskole without the sculptor’s presence. 45 men attend. A song about Rome and Thorvaldsen by H.C. Andersen and two songs by F.C. Hillerup are sung. | ||
| 18.3.1835 | Awarded honorary citizenship of Mainz, cf. N35. Does not receive the diploma until his visit to the city 1.7.1841. | ||
| 20.4.1835 | Elected honorary member of the Accademia Aretina di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Arezzo. | ||
| 27.4.1835 | Signs a contract with Helena Poninska for the Monument to the two Poninski Children, cf. A616. | ||
| Beginning of May 1835 | The frigate Bellona leaves Copenhagen. | ||
| Summer 1835 | Friedrich Schiller, A138, preparatory work for A770. | ||
| 8.6.1835 | The frigate Bellona reaches Leghorn. | ||
| 9.7.1835 | The frigate Bellona leaves Leghorn bound for Copenhagen, carrying Thorvaldsen’s works. | ||
| 20.7.1835 | Honorary member of the Società Petrarchina di Scienze e Belle Arti in Arezzo. | ||
| Autumn 1835 | Monument to the two Poninski Children is begun, cf. A616 and A917. | ||
| Autumn 1835 | The Judgement of Solomon, A554. | ||
| September 1835 | The Resurrection, A561. | ||
| 5.9.1835 | The frigate Bellona arrives in Copenhagen with some of Thorvaldsen’s works. | ||
| 9.9.1835 | Formanden for Schiller-foreningen udtrykker glæde over Karl von Kolbs beskrivelse af den færdige skitse til Schiller-statuen, A138. | ||
| End of October 1835 | The Danish merchant Hans Puggaard arrives in Rome with his wife, the painter Bolette Puggaard, and his daughter Marie. Together with a young relative, they spend six months in the city – often in Thorvaldsen’s company. | ||
| 1.11.1835 | Receives a visit from the Puggaard family. | ||
| 2.11.1835 |
Shows the Puggaard family round his studios, where work is being done on Maximilian I., A128. Gathers roses in his garden for Marie and Bolette Puggaard. |
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| 5.11.1835 | Evening party at the house of the Puggaard family in Via degli Avignonesi. | ||
| Presumably 23.11.1835 | Aftenselskab hos familien Puggaard. Møder her Constantin Hansen, der lige er ankommet til Rom. | ||
| Presumably winter 1835 - 1836 | Restores the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in the Campidoglio. | ||
| Not earlier than December 1835 - not later than February 1836 | Thomas Dyke Acland and Lydia Elizabeth, neé Hoare (1786-1856) acquire or are given two terracotta reliefs of Night , cf. A369, and Day, cf. A370, as a remembrance of their stay in Rome. The reliefs are still in the library of the Ackland family’s former home Killerton House, Devon, England. | ||
| 13.12.1835 | Attends an evening party at the house of the Puggaard family, along with the German painters Joh. Christian Reinhart and Franz Ludwig Catel. The daughter of the house Marie serves pancakes. | ||
| 22.12.1835 | Elected member of the Koninklijk Instituut van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam. | ||
| 24.12.1835 | Celebrates Christmas with the other Danes in Rome, among them the Puggaard family, the painters Jørgen V. Sonne, who made the Christmas porridge, Ditlev Blunck and Fritz Petzholdt. | ||
| End of 1835 | Marble version of Nemesis Attended by the Genii of Punishment and Reward, cf. A364, is completed and placed in Julius Mylius’ chapel in Loveno. |