16.9.1804
Sender C.F.F. Stanley
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley is planning to remain near Naples until the middle of October and then go to Rome. He wri...
9.10.1804
Recipient Herman Schubart
Stanley thanks Schubart for recommending him to people in Denmark. He feels almost cured after tw...
30.10.1804
Sender Waldemar Henrik Rothe
The theologian Waldemar Henrik Rothe thanks Thorvaldsen for his friendship during his stay in Rom...
26.11.1804
Sender Herman Schubart
Schubart wants to know if Thorvaldsen will accept the commission of Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1. B...
7.12.1804
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late answer to Schubart’s letter. He thanks him for the comm...
26.12.1804
Sender Antonio Canova
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard, København Kunstakademiet
Canova thanks Abildgaard for his nomination as a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,...
28.12.1804
Schubart and his wife have moved from Montenero to Pisa, where they have to spend the winter beca...
29.12.1804
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard
Abildgaard recommends the bearer of the letter, Carl Christian Seydewitz, to Thorvaldsen. He comm...
28.1.1805
Sender Gustav Stanley
Recipient C.F.F. Stanley
Gustav Stanley sends news from Copenhagen to his brother.
31.1.1805
Abildgaard discusses the payment for the transportation of the crates Thorvaldsen has sent to Cop...
9.3.1805
Stanley suggests having Gotskalk Thorvaldsen admitted to Vartov, an institution for the poor. Sta...
15.3.1805
Sender J.F. Clemens
Recipient J.L. Lund
Several messages concerning, among other things, Johan Bülow’s interset in a marble copy of...
29.3.1805
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
Recipient Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
14.4.1805
Gustav Stanley sends news from Copenhagen about Christiansborg Palace and the Academy of Fine Art...
24.4.1805
Stanley asks Thorvaldsen to help him with some sculptural decorations for some of his architectur...
8.5.1805
Sender Jens Christopher Friborg
Recipient Directionen for Fattigvæsenet
10.5.1805
Schubart writes that The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, cf. A705, and the portrait busts of himse...
16.5.1805
Sender Directionen for Fattigvæsenet
Recipient Vartov Hospital
The poor-law authorities in Copenhagen admit Gotskalk Thorvaldsen to Vartov Hospital.
1.6.1805
Sender Vartov Hospital
Vartov list of Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’s personal effects.
Sender Balthasar Schiøtt
Balthasar Schiøtt reports that at Stanley’s – and indirectly Thorvaldsen’s – request he has seen ...
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’s entry in Census of Patients at Vartov Hospital.
7.6.1805
Sender Christian 7.
Christian 7. appoints Thorvaldsen professor of sculpture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts...
15.6.1805
Sender København Kunstakademiet
The Academy of Fine Arts announces that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor of sculpture.
17.6.1805
18.6.1805
Sender C.F. Stanley
Stanley Senior writes that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts i...
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dagen
1.7.1805
Schubart has read in a newspaper that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of ...
6.7.1805
Sender Arnold Wallick
Recipient Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
9.7.1805
Sender J. Müller
Recipient C.F. Høyer
A dedication in a book to C.F. Høyer.
19.7.1805
Schubart thanks Stanley for his letter and asks him to tell Thorvaldsen that he will soon receive...
26.7.1805
Schubart is pleased with Thorvaldsen’s appointment as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts...
28.7.1805
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard
Draft: Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that the block of marble he has ordered will be sent in the...
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Thorvaldsen expresses his gratitude for his appointment as professor of sculpture at the Academy ...
Draft letter dated 28.7.1805.
Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that the block of marble he has ordered will be sent in the autumn...
Medio august 1805
Sender Conrad Rantzau
Rantzau tells Thorvaldsen that he has sent a bill of exchange for 300 piastres to Rome through Zo...
16.8.1805
Stanley teases Thorvaldsen because he has not heard from him for a long time, but suddenly a lett...
17.8.1805
Sender Anna Maria Uhden
Anna Maria Uhden reproaches Thorvaldsen for the insensitive way he left her in Rome. He should ha...
24.8.1805
Stanley has received a letter from the mayor of Copenhagen concerning Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’...
[26].8.1805
Recipient Anna Maria Uhden
Thorvaldsen complains about his strenuous journey but assures Anna Maria Uhden that he is fine no...
30.8.1805
Stanley ironically describes his amazement at having received two letters from Thorvaldsen. He al...
Sender Camillo Landini
Stanley has given Landini a letter from Thorvaldsen, who is at Montenero, and asks for news about...
Anna Maria Uhden is grateful for the letter from Thorvaldsen. She has been very ill and jokingly ...
31.8.1805
Sender J.L. Lund
Lund has heard that Thorvaldsen is working on the relief The Baptism of Christ, possibly A736, du...
7.9.1805
Stanley’s health is tolerable. Anna Maria Uhden is also well, as is Thorvaldsen’s dog...
16.9.1805
Schubart hopes that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Rome. He mentions the mortally ill Caspar B...
21.9.1805
Stanley submits drawings for a church and a sepulchral chapel for evaluation by the Academy of Fi...
30.9.1805
Schubart apologizes for not having written for a long time. Stanley is welcome to send him his le...
Recipient Georg Zoëga
Schubart is pleased to hear that Thorvaldsen – who is now in Rome – enjoyed being with him at Mon...
11.10.1805
Schubart has made some emendations in Stanley’s letter to the Academy of Fine Arts in Copen...
19.10.1805
Abildgaard is sympathetic to the idea that Thorvaldsen should remain in Rome for the time being b...
Sender Niels Ryberg / Ryberg & Co.
Recipient H. Jensen, C.F.F. Stanley
A bill of exchange made out to H. Jensen and meant for Stanley in Rome.
20.10.1805
Sender Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen takes leave of his son and apologizes for his last letter. He writes that he...
5.11.1805
Schubart recommends C.F. Høyer to Thorvaldsen. He hopes to come to Rome when the hostilities are ...
10.11.1805
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
11.11.1805
Schubart writes that he has forwarded Stanley’s letter to the Academy of Fine Arts in Copen...
16.11.1805
Sender C.F. Høyer
C.F. Høyer has just arrived in Rome. He reports to Nicolai Abildgaard that Thorvaldsen has invite...
Sandsynligvis 22.11.1805
Sender Henrik Vilhelm Lundbye
Lundbye informs Schubart that C.F.F. Stanley has died. He reproduces his graveside speech and des...
30.11.1805
Sender Basil Lisakewitz
Fragment of a letter containing a date and a signature.
27.12.1805
Canova has been elected member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He lacks words to...
1806
Sender Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke
Recipient Angelika Kauffmann
The poem addresses a doubting “you” and suggests that “veiled, gentle Charis” breathes in Angelik...
3.2.1806
Sender Jacqueline Schubart
Jacqueline Schubart expresses her delight with Thorvaldsen’s drawing Cupid and the Butterfl...
28.2.1806
Høyer reports on his activities in Rome. He is happy to stay with Thorvaldsen.
6.3.1806
Sender Nicolaus Jac. Stuhr
Stuhr has arrived at Leghorn and informed Herman Schubart that his busts of A.P. Bernstorff, A207...
12.4.1806
8.5.1806
Lundbye informs Thorvaldsen of his arrival in Pisa. He tells him about the mutual friends he has ...
23.5.1806
Schubart tells Abildgaard about C.F.F. Stanley’s death. He encloses Henrik Vilhelm Lundbye&...
2.6.1806
Schubart confers with Zoëga on smuggling a collection of antique coins from Rome to Leghorn on be...
9.6.1806
Sender Johann Carl Rössler
Rössler writes from Pisa, where he has met Baron Schubart. He urges Thorvaldsen to leave Rome and...
14.6.1806
Thorvaldsen competes with Antonio Canova for the commission for a colossal statue of Liberty to t...
18.6.1806
Høyer suggests that commissions for Christiansborg Palace should soon be given to Thorvaldsen bef...
Sentences and fragments of a letter, see the general comment.
Thorvaldsen thanks Abildgaard for helping Gotskalk Thorvaldsen. The war has given Thorvaldsen fin...
Draft letter, see the general comment.
Draft letter dated 18.6.1806.
28.7.1806
Sender J.C. Ulrich
Ulrich sends a bill for the remainder of the cost of the transport of crates from Leghorn to Cope...
8.8.1806
Thorvaldsen apologizes for not having been in contact with regard to the commission for a monumen...
14.8.1806
Abildgaard informs Thorvaldsen that he will receive his salary as a professor of the Royal Academ...
15.8.1806
Schubart urges Thorvaldsen to come to Montenero. He is pleased that the busts of Herman Schubart,...
6.9.1806
13.9.1806
Sender Pietro Finelli
Receipt from Pietro Finelli confirming the payment of 25 paoli.
23.9.1806
Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the Museo Pio Clementino. He ...
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the...
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the ...
24.10.1806
Vartov list of Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’s estate.
18.11.1806
31.12.1806
Sender C.F. Hansen
C.F. Hansen commissions works from Thorvaldsen. For the façade of Christiansborg Palace, he wants...
23.1.1807
Recipient Conrad Rantzau
Thorvaldsen tells Conrad Rantzau how work on his commissions is progressing. The portrait bust, c...
30.1.1807
Høyer writes that Thorvaldsen has received an instalment of 100 rix-dollars for the portrait bust...
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart for a bill of exchange. He has had financial problems because the war...
16.2.1807
Recipient C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen suggests subjects from Greek mythology for the reliefs for the Christiansborg Palace ...
21.2.1807
Thorvaldsen has received commissions from C.F. Hansen and the Building Commission for Christiansb...
9.3.1807
Schubart is pleased that Thorvaldsen has received commissions from Denmark. He is going to ask Ch...
23.4.1807
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Recipient P.O. Brøndsted
Brøndsted has met August Wilhelm Schlegel, who has stated that Thorvaldsen is one of the best con...
29.4.1807
Sender Laurits Engelstoft
On behalf of Marcus Gerhard Rosencrone, Engelstoft asks Thorvaldsen to execute a portrait bust in...
15.5.1807
The building commission will forward an advance payment at 1000 scuid to Thorvaldsen. Hansen sugg...
16.5.1807
Sender Slotsbygningskommissionen
The Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace informs Thorvaldsen that he will receive an adv...
20.5.1807
Sender Altona Det kongelige bankkontor
The bank informs Thorvaldsen that 1,000 scudi will be transferred to him through J.C. Ulrich at L...
Recipient Laurits Engelstoft
Thorvaldsen accepts the commission for the portrait bust of Henrik Hielmstierne, cf. A210 and spe...