1.2.1820
Sender NN
Recipient Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
12.3.1820
Sender Christian 8.
Recipient C.F. Hansen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
20.4.1820
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Frederik 6.
Thorvaldsen suggests a drastic restructuring and relocation of the Royal Collection of Paintings,...
25.5.1820
Recipient Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen’s copy of the letter dated 25.5.1820, see the comments there.
Thorvaldsen firmly declines the proposal of the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace tha...
27.6.1820
Sender Rasmus Bruun Bojesen
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
28.6.1820
Sender Werner Jasper Andreas Moltke
Moltke declines an invitation to attend the farewell party to Thorvaldsen at the Royal Shooting S...
11.7.1820
Sender Peder Horrebow Haste
Haste regrets that he is unable to write a poem to express his love for Thorvaldsen, the man. He ...
19.7.1820
Sender Henrik Vilhelm Lundbye
Lundbye thanks Thorvaldsen for his promise to perform a task for him in Italy. He asks Thorvaldse...
Sandsynligvis før 11.8.1820
Sender Emil Aarestrup
Poem to Thorvaldsen before his departure from Denmark.
10.8.1820
Sender A.C. Kierulff
Thorvalden’s passport for his journey from Copenhagen to Italy via Warsaw.
Recipient NN
Farewell greeting from Thorvaldsen to an unknown recipient.
15.8.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Lolland-Falsters Stifts-Tidende
Newspaper clipping on Thorvaldsen’s departure from Copenhagen.
19.8.1820
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund
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...
4.9.1820
Sender Heinrich Hopfgarten
Hopfgarten invites Thorvaldsen for a visit and asks him to carry a letter to his brother.
10.9.1820
Sender Carl Koopmann, Kunstakademie Dresden
Speech honouring Thorvaldsen from the students at the Art Academy in Dresden.
11.9.1820
Sender Karl August Böttiger
Böttiger writes a flattering dedication to Thorvaldsen in his book Ideen zur Archäologie der Male...
18.9.1820
Sender Christian Daniel Rauch
Rauch hopes that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Warsaw. He encloses a small metal relief as a ...
5.10.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Allgemeine Zeitung reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Berlin and Dresden, on his coming visi...
14.10.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
The newspaper Nyeste Skilderie reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Dresden.
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dagen
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.
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...
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.
23.12.1820
26.12.1820
Sender Torkel Baden, Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
28.12.1820
Recipient Christian 8.
Visits Thorvaldsen, who gets the idea of enlarging his professorial residence at the Academy of F...
2.3.1821
Sender Johan Gunder Adler
C.F. Hansen’s proposal for the assignments that Hermann Ernst Freund may be given by the Building...
Før 19.3.1821
Sender Accademia di San Luca
27.3.1821
The Prince has passed on C.F. Hansen’s proposal for work that Hermann Ernst Freund can execute fo...
1.4.1821
Certificate of indebtedness. Christian (8.) Frederik borrows 9000 scudi at an annual interest of ...
23.6.1821
Sender C.F. Høyer
Høyer sends Thorvaldsen a selection of his own writings related to the ongoing dispute about Nors...
12.8.1821
Describes the inauguration of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, in Lucerne, w...
28.8.1821
Sender J.C. Dahl
Dahl asks Thorvaldsen to find acquaintances and work for Götzloff, who is coming to Rome to study...
7.11.1821
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Senest 3.1.1822
7.1.1822
Sender Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
Recipient Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
The Earl of Minto describes a visit to Thorvaldsen’s and Canova’s workshops and compa...
2.3.1822
Sender Accademia Fiorentina, Giovanni degli Alessandri
16.3.1822
Sender Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Imprisoned at Frederiksten fortress, Hans Henrik Gunnerus writes to Thorvaldsen with an appeal fo...
24.4.1822
Sender Joachim Grabien
Joachim Grabien forwards a letter from J.V. Minten to Thorvaldsen and asks him to send the chests...
Omkring 11.5.1822
Recipient Stanisław Grabowski
Thorvaldsen writes a report on his current Polish commissions. The funerary monument to Potocki h...
24.5.1822
21.7.1822
Sender J.L. Lund
J.L. Lund is going to send one of his paintings to Thorvaldsen. He encloses a letter from Øllegaa...
22.7.1822
Dahl asks Thorvaldsen to find work for Carl Wagner and Ernst Oehme, who are coming to Rome. He al...
6.9.1822
Sender F. Louis Coué
Coué mentions an earlier letter sent through J.G. Schadow and Rudolf Schadow. He supposes that th...
Senest 13.10.1822
8.11.1822
Recipient Fonden ad usus publicos
Thorvaldsen recommends the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop.
14.11.1822
Sender Peter Norden Sølling
Sølling expresses his gratitude for Thorvaldsen’s company during his stay in Denmark and recounts...
20.11.1822
Visits C.W. Eckersberg, enjoys his paintings, and sees his casts of Thorvaldsen’s portrait ...
28.11.1822
The letter is a repetition of the letter dated 21.7.1822, which Thorvaldsen has not answered. Lun...
13.12.1822
Sender Camillo Landini
Landini writes from Saint Petersburg to recommend the sculptor Orlovsky, who has successfully car...
30.1.1823
Sender Amedeo Lavy
Recommendation of the sculptor Giuseppe Bogliani.
11.2.1823
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Recipient Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted complains about having been assigned the “less than amusing” task for Christian (8.) Fr...
11.3.1823
Payment of the biannual interest of 225 scudi on the loan of 9000 scudi, which Christian (8.) Fre...
19.11.1823
Antagelig omkring 19.11.1823
15.12.1823
Giovanni degli Alessandri recommends a student, Tommaso Gasperini, to Thorvaldsen. Gasperini is c...
1824
Sender Peder Horrebow Haste, J.C. Riise
Haste sends additions and corrections to Nicolay Fürst’s biography of Thorvaldsen. Haste writes a...
The commentary to this encyclopedia article is not available at the moment.
22.1.1824
Sender Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Quatremère de Quincy
Nomination of Thorvaldsen as a foreign member of the French Academy of Art. The result of a vote,...
21.2.1824
Gunnerus informs Thorvaldsen that he has handed over his deed of gift of 24.5.1822 and the owners...
23.3.1824
22.5.1824
2.6.1824
Før 4.7.1824
19.9.1824
Før 25.9.1824
Før 14.11.1824
27.11.1824
Sender Christian Horneman
Recommendation of the Danish architect Ole Jørgen Schmidt, who is going to Italy. Horneman’...
30.11.1824
Sender Ernst Schimmelmann, København Udenrigsdepartementet
Frederik VI has ordered the brig St. Croix to go to the Mediterranean on its way back from the Da...
1.12.1824
Recipient Hermann Ernst Freund
Freund is put in charge of the packing of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks which are to be ...
8.12.1824
21.1.1825
29.1.1825
Gunnerus tells Thorvaldsen that time is running out. In the past three years since Thorvaldsen do...
24.2.1825
Recipient Just Mathias Thiele
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
26.2.1825
List of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks which Christian (8.) Frederik wants to be sent to D...
Christian (8.) Frederik sends a list of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks that he wants to be...
26.4.1825
Sender Accademia Nazionale di Belle Arti di Bologna
29.4.1825
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund, Bertel Thorvaldsen
Extra bill for water-resistant burlap to cover the marbles so that they could be placed on the de...
2.7.1825
List of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks which were put on board the brig St. Croix in order...
24.9.1825
Most of Thorvaldsen’s artworks have arrived safely in Copenhagen though some of the plaster...
14.10.1825
Sender Koninklijke Academie
26.11.1825
27.12.1825
1826-1827 (1876)
Sender N.C.L. Abrahams
Abrahams’ recollections of his stay in Rome 1826-27.
Marts 1826
Sender Reale Accademia delle Belle Arti di Torino
11.3.1826
Sender H.F.J. Estrup
Recipient København Ordenskapitlet
The historian Estrup’s biography of Thorvaldsen for the Chapter of the Royal Orders of Chiv...
14.3.1826
1.4.1826
15.7.1826
Sender Koninklijke Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten
28.7.1826
Sender Thorleifur Repp
5.9.1826
Sender Sophus Zahle
Muligvis 20.10.1826
Sender Académie de France à Rome
Muligvis 28.10.1826
25.11.1826
Christian (8.) Frederik wants to know which of Thorvaldsen’s works wil be sent home in the ...
The Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen wants more casts of Thorvaldsen’s works.