19.8.1820
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
20.8.1820
Sender Louise Juliane von Bertouch
A poem to Thorvaldsen about his bachelorhood.
22.8.1820
Sender Jørgen Koch
Recipient Johan Gunder Adler
Thorvaldsen intends to travel via Poland to Italy in the company of the Danish architect Simon Ch...
28.8.1820
Sender Vilhelm Henrik Harbou
30.8.1820
Recipient C.F. Hansen
Recommendation of C.A. Jensen, who is copying two paintings in Rome by Domenichino and Raphael.
4.9.1820
Sender Heinrich Hopfgarten
Hopfgarten invites Thorvaldsen for a visit and asks him to carry a letter to his brother.
11.9.1820
Sender Karl August Böttiger
Böttiger writes a flattering dedication to Thorvaldsen in his book Ideen zur Archäologie der Male...
12.9.1820
Sender Leo von Klenze
Recipient Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Klenze hopes that Schönborn will come and see the art exhibition in Munich, which he also expects...
15.9.1820
Sender Christian 8.
17.9.1820
Sender Stanislaus de Chaudoir
Chaudoir inquires whether Thorvaldsen has had time to think about the commissioned monument to hi...
18.9.1820
Sender Christian Daniel Rauch
Rauch hopes that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Warsaw. He encloses a small metal relief as a ...
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dagen
Recipient Omnes
Notice mentioning, among other things, Thorvaldsen’s expected arrival in Warsaw.
19.9.1820
Sender C.F. Høyer
Høyer forwards a letter from H.E. Freund in Rome to Thorvaldsen, who is on his way through Europe...
26.9.1820
Sender Peter Theodor Schorn
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
30.9.1820
Notice about the construction of the Kościuszko Mound at Kraków.
5.10.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Allgemeine Zeitung reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Berlin and Dresden, on his coming visi...
7.10.1820
A newspaper reports that Thorvaldsen has arrived in Warszaw.
14.10.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
The newspaper Nyeste Skilderie reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Dresden.
The newspaper Dagen reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Dresden.
19.10.1820
Hans Michelsen leaves Stockholm for Rome in order to study with Thorvaldsen in Rome.
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Stanisław Mokronowski
A supplementary contract which elaborates the conditions of the original contract of 8.7.1818. A ...
Fra 21.10.1820 til 16.12.1820
Sender Paweł Maliński
Maliński’s travel account for Thorvaldsen’s journey from Warsaw to Rome October to De...
6.11.1820
Newpaper report on the congress of Troppau.
7.11.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Il Messaggere Tirolese
Thorvaldsen arrives in Vienna after a stay at Troppau, where he met the Russian and the Austrian ...
Sender Franziska Caspers
Caspers is pleased to wish Thorvaldsen good morning for the first time in Vienna. She gives him h...
9.11.1820
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the accident that took place 8.11.1820 in one of Thorvaldsen’s wor...
18.11.1820
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the accident that took place on 8.11.1820 in one of Thorvaldsen...
Sender J.F. Clemens
Advertisement in the newspaper Dagen for Clemens’s copperplate portrait, E9, of Thorvaldsen.
25.11.1820
Sender Øllegaard Lundegaard
Charity from Thorvaldsen requested.
9.12.1820
12.12.1820
Recipient Christian 8.
Rides out (in vain) to meet Thorvaldsen, who is on his way to Rome.
16.12.1820
Thorvaldsen has arrived in Rome that day and has tea in the evening with Christian (8.) Frederik ...
17.12.1820
Dinner with Thorvaldsen and other Danes in Rome.
17.-23.12.1820
Visits Canova’s workshop and comments on the sculptor’s works. Then he visits Thorvaldsen’s works...
20.12.1820
Sender Frances Mackenzie
Recipient Jonas Collin
21.12.1820
Dinner with Thorvaldsen and Claus Christian Bang.
23.12.1820
24.12.1820
Sender Elisabetta Catalani Marini
Through Thorvaldsen, Marini has received 4,30 gold sequins from her sister, the opera singer Ange...
Celebrates Christmas Eve in the company of Thorvaldsen and other Danes in Rome. They have rice pu...
28.12.1820
Visits Thorvaldsen, who gets the idea of enlarging his professorial residence at the Academy of F...
30.12.1820
Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Sommariva has heard that Thorvaldsen has returned to Rome after his trip to Denmark and congratul...
Thorvaldsen is working on the bust of Caroline Amalie, A716.
2.1.1821
6.1.1821
Recipient H.N. Clausen
Sender H.F.J. Estrup
7.1.1821
Thorvaldsen begins modelling the bust of Christian (8.) Frederik, cf. A197. The sculptor and the ...
9.1.1821
Thorvaldsen is working on the bust of Christian (8.) Frederik, cf. A197.
11.1.1821
13.1.1821
Thorvaldsen has finished modelling the bust of Christian (8.) Frederik, cf. A197.
17.1.1821
Visits Thorvaldsen in his workshop, where he meets the Russian general Alexander Ivanovich Osterm...
24.1.1821
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Recipient Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted mentions four busts recently completed by Thorvaldsen.
27.1.1821
Visits Thorvaldsen, who has modelled a bust of the Austrian Prince Karl Philipp von Schwarzenberg...
28.1.1821
Plays host to a large company of noblemen and artists on the occasion of the Danish King Frederik...
30.1.1821
1.2.1821
Dinner with Vincenzo Camuccini, Thorvaldsen, C.F. Rumohr, and Luigi Godard. He has received trans...
14.2.1821
Visits Thorvaldsen, who is working on the bust of Caroline Amalie, cf. A754.
22.2.1821
Visits the German painter Adolf Senff and then Thorvaldsen, who is working on a marble version of...
23.2.1821
Recipient J.P. Mynster
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
25.2.1821
Dinner with Thorvaldsen, Vincenzo Camuccini, C.F. Rumohr, Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl von Baudis...
26.2.1821
Thorvaldsen and Rudolf Schadow model and others draw the beautiful Vittoria Caldoni, whom August ...
27.2.1821
Sends a drawing of his bust, cf. either A197 or A753, to Countess Pauline Escalon.
Mellem 11.8.1820 og 1.3.1821
Sender Sophie Probsthayn
2.3.1821
Christian (8.) Frederik visits Thorvaldsen with an offer of a commission for Hermann Ernst Freund...
Sender Johan Gunder Adler
C.F. Hansen’s proposal for the assignments that Hermann Ernst Freund may be given by the Building...
3.3.1821
Recipient Hermann Ernst Freund
C.F. Hansen’s proposal for the assignments that Hermann Ernst Freund may be given by the Buildin...
11.3.1821
19.3.1821
Thorvaldsen has modelled Christ, cf. A82 and the apostles Peter, cf. A86 and Paul, cf. A103 in clay.
22.3.1821
Soirée with Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl von Baudissin, Friederica Juliane von Baudissin, Otto Fr...
27.3.1821
The Prince has passed on C.F. Hansen’s proposal for work that Hermann Ernst Freund can execute fo...
30.3.1821
Visits Thorvaldsen and Joseph Anton Koch.
1.4.1821
Certificate of indebtedness. Christian (8.) Frederik borrows 9000 scudi at an annual interest of ...
2.4.1821
Has visited Thorvaldsen and is pleased with the sketch, Nysø34, for the statue of Caroline Amalie...
7.4.1821
Leaves Rome after a long visit. Thorvaldsen and other artists take leave of the royal couple at L...
18.4.1821
Maj 1821
Sender Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Torlonia is disappointed that Thorvaldsen has not complied with the agreement to complete Jason w...
Juni - december 1821
Sender NN
The commentary for this account is not available at the moment.
2.6.1821
Sender Stanisław Mokronowski
Mokronowski refers to his letter of February 3rd with an enclosure concerning the funerary monume...
16.6.1821
Sender Jonas Collin
23.6.1821
Høyer sends Thorvaldsen a selection of his own writings related to the ongoing dispute about Nors...
3.7.1821
Sender B.S. Ingemann
B.S. Ingemann writes that Thorvaldsenis missed in Denmark. He tells him that the painter Andreas ...
11.7.1821
Sender J.V. Minten
The late Doctor Ekman’s brother-in-law thanks Thorvaldsen for the letter he sent from Copenhagen....
14.7.1821
30.7.1821
Sender Marianna Rinaldi
Marianna Rinaldi writes to Thorvaldsen after his return from Copenhagen in order to learn whether...
31.7.1821
Tidligst 10.8.1821, senest ultimo 1822
Sender Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Pfyffer von Altishoffen sends Thorvaldsen some material regarding the monument Dying lion (The Lu...
10.8.1821
12.8.1821
Describes the inauguration of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, in Lucerne, w...
20.8.1821
Thorvaldsen is modelling Christ, cf. A82, in full size. The models for the apostles Peter, cf. A8...
21.8.1821
Recipient Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Thorvaldsen answers Torlonia regarding Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, which is to be deliver...
28.8.1821
Sender J.C. Dahl
Dahl asks Thorvaldsen to find acquaintances and work for Götzloff, who is coming to Rome to study...
7.9.1821
Mokronowski introduces Bernard Potocki, a nephew of Włodzimierz Potocki, who is coming to Rome. H...
7.11.1821
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
14.12.1821
Recipient Stanisław Grabowski
Thorvaldsen expresses his grief at the death of Stanisław Mokronowski. He regrets that several pr...
29.12.1821
1822-1826
Sender F.C. Hillerup
Hillerup describes Thorvaldsen’s residence and workshops in Rome.
5.2.1822
Recipient Frederik Julius Kaas