Comment on 6.8.1804
If Thorvaldsen is trying to justify his many commissions here, it is because, strictly speaking, i.e. formally, he was not allowed to accept commissions from others without the permission of the Danish King / the Academy of Fine Arts, see the related article Thorvaldsen’s Continuance in Rome around 1803-1804 regarding this matter. There it appears that this “prohibition” had been amicably revoked during the spring of 1804.
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