16.4.1787
Sender Christian Frederik Høyer
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s certificate of confirmation.
11.8.1793
Sender Johan Hendrich Bärens
Recipient Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
2.12.1793
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Thorvaldsen applies for a grant from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
8.5.1794
Sender Hans Hansen
Hansen has read a review of Thorvaldsen’s prize-winning relief Peter and John Healing a Lame Man,...
5.1.1795
Thorvaldsen presents the relief Numa Pompilius and Egeria, A748, to the Royal Academy. He also ap...
23.2.1795
Hansen visits Thorvaldsen in his home at 13 Åbenrå, Copenhagen.
2.11.1795
Thorvaldsen’s application for the travelling scholarship of the Royal Danish Academy of Fin...
5.6.1796
Sender Sophie Amalie Kurtzhals
A greeting in Thorvaldsen’s album.
7.6.1796
Sender Johanne Ulstrup
14.6.1796
Sender Severine Elisabet Arnette West
25.7.1796
Thorvaldsen requests an advance on his travelling scholarship.
23.8.1796
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard, Jens Juel, København Kunstakademiet, Peter Meyn
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts instructs Thorvaldsen on the terms of his travelling grant....
30.12.1796
Sender Claus Hvidtfeldt Blom
17.1.-14.2.1797
Thorvaldsen’s diary from his sojourn in Malta, Palermo and Naples.
13.2.1797
Thorvaldsen’s first report to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts since his departure from Cope...
Antagelig marts 1797
Recipient Jørgen West
A sheet with several fragments in Danish, German and Italian. First two drafts of a letter in Ita...
1.5.1797
Sender C.D. Fritzsch
Fritzsch sends his warm regards and hopes to join Thorvaldsen in Rome soon. Two of Fritzsch’s flo...
3.6.1797
Sender Senatore Scarpetti
Receipt for payment of rent for Thorvaldsen’s first studio in Rome in Vicolo Aliberti 1797-1799.
19.8.1797
Thorvaldsen reports to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he arrived in Rome on March 8, ...
9.12.1797
Sender Karen Thorvaldsen
Karen Thorvaldsen misses her son greatly. She is unhappy with her life and her husband. He gives ...
Ultimo 1797
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen’s draft of his first report to Abildgaard on his activities in Rome. He has visited t...
5.1.1798
Thorvaldsen reports to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he has studied Rome and its sur...
20.1.1798
Efter 23.1.1798
Sender Heinrich Keller
Eulogy for the Swiss sculptor Johann Jakob Schmid.
23.3.1798
Sender Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is happy to have received news from his son. He advises him to send a work o...
30.6.1798
Thorvaldsen informs the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he has sent two samples of his wor...
3.1.1799
Thorvaldsen reports to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he is still in Rome, and that h...
19.3.1799
Sender København Kunstakademiet
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts informs Thorvaldsen of a one-year prolongation of his trave...
Draft letter from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts informing Thorvaldsen of a one-year prolo...
20.5.1799
Thanking his son for his letter, Thorvaldsen’s father writes about the hard winter, his work, and...
12.10.1799
Both Thorvaldsen’s semi-annual report to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the works he w...
Thorvaldsen thanks Abildgaard for his support. He tells him that many of the Roman art collection...
3.12.1799
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard
Abildgaard reports that the works Thorvaldsen sent to Copenhagen have arrived safely. He complime...
Sender Cornelius Høyer, København Kunstakademiet
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has evaluated Thorvaldsen’s Bacchus and Ariadne, A1, and is...
5.3.1800
Sender Johann Daniel Lawaetz
Recipient Georg Zoëga
Lawaetz reports that he has transferred 100 rix-dollars from Nicolai Abildgaard / the Royal Danis...
4.4.1800
Thorvaldsen is delighted that the work he has sent to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has w...
Thorvaldsen has received Abildgaard’s latest letter and thanks him for everything he does to prom...
Thorvaldsen’s parents are delighted with the latest letter from their son, especially because a f...
10.4.1800
Sender Poul Scheel
Scheel sends greetings to his friends in Rome. He recommends the island of Menorca, which is said...
21.7.1800
Abildgaard relates that some people in Copenhagen have accused Thorvaldsen of being lazy in Rome,...
24.10.1800
Thorvaldsen regrets that his report to the Royal Academy has been delayed. He would have liked to...
Thorvaldsen reports that the transportation of two crates with artworks bound for the Royal Danis...
7.1.1801
Sender Georg Zoëga
Georg Zoëga attests to the authorities that Bertel Thorvaldsen is a Danish sculptor, supported by...
Efter 7.1.1801
Sender NN
Recipient NN
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
16.3.1801
Sender J.C. Ulrich
J.C. Ulrich reports that the two crates Thorvaldsen has inquired about are withheld in the bankru...
13.4.1801
Ulrich has negotiated with the shipping firm of Jaume & Schwarz regarding Thorvaldsen’s two c...
22.4.1801
Thorvaldsen reports that the two crates with artworks bound for the Royal Danish Academy of Fine ...
27.4.1801
In continuation of his earlier letters, Ulrich reports that he is not able to redeem Thorvaldsen’...
11.5.1801
Ulrich has redeemed the two crates Thorvaldsen sent to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from...
4.10.1801
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is happy to have received a letter from Thorvaldsen as rumours in Copenhagen...
Abildgaard informs Thorvaldsen that the last instalment of his travelling grant has been sent to ...
Muligvis 1802
Sender Antonio Canova
Recipient Accademia di San Luca
11.1.1802
Ulrich has received Thorvaldsen’s letter about two crates sent from Rome via Georg Zoëga. The cra...
20.1.1802
Sender Johan Hartvig Ernst von Berger
Berger reports that he is willing to transport Thorvaldsen’s four crates bound for Copenhagen / t...
25.1.1802
Ulrich has received Thorvaldsen’s letters, but his two crates have not yet arrived at Leghorn. Ul...
Primo februar 1802
Recipient Johan Hartvig Ernst von Berger
Thorvaldsen is happy that Captain Berger has accepted to ship the four crates containing artworks...
15.2.1802
Ulrich reports that the four crates Thorvaldsen has sent to Leghorn have been taken aboard Captai...
20.3.1802
Thorvaldsen reports that Captain Berger has agreed to ship five crates with artworks, books etc. ...
Thorvaldsen reports that he is still in Rome, but he plans to embark on his journey back to Denma...
Antagelig april 1802
Thorvaldsen complains that he has not received any letter for a long time.
22.4.1802
Recipient Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen begs his father to send him a letter as he is longing for news from Copenhagen. He ex...
10.5.1802
Thorvaldsen asks Berger to remove the marble bust of Edmund Bourke, A900, from one of the crates ...
11.3.1803
Sender Jørgen West
Jørgen West asks what to do about the bust of Tyge Rothe, A225, which is in the care of Nicolai A...
15.3.1803
Sender C.F.F. Stanley
Stanley informs his good friend of his arrival in Naples. He has contracted an illness which prev...
3.5.1803
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen reproaches his son strongly for not returning to Copenhagen.
24.5.1803
Stanley informs Thorvaldsen about his illness. He has to visit the spas on the island of Ischia. ...
6.6.1803
Stanley’s illness forces him to visit the spas on the island of Ischia. He is frustrated that thi...
18.10.1803
Stanley thanks Thorvaldsen for his letter. He very much wants to be in Rome, especially before t...
1.11.1803
Stanley has received incorrect treatment by his Italian doctor, but his new German doctor is bett...
7.11.1803
Recipient Charlotte Schimmelmann
Petition from Thorvaldsen, drawn up in collaboration with Herman Schubart and addressed to Schuba...
10.1.1804
Sender Jacqueline Schubart
A fragment of a letter presumably from Jacqueline Schubart, suggesting support for Thorvaldsen. T...
17.1.1804
Abildgaard is happy about Thorvaldsen’s success in Rome. He has received the busts Thorvaldsen se...
Februar-marts 1804
Sender Herman Schubart
Recipient C.F. Hansen
Schubart proposes that C.F. Hansen should commission works by Thorvaldsen for the rebuilding of C...
25.2.1804
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has left him incapable of wor...
6.3.1804
Sender Fonden ad usus publicos
The foundation ad usus publicos grants Thorvaldsen 300 Danish rix-dollars due to his progress in ...
26.3.1804
Recipient Frederik 6.
Schubart tries to persuade Crown Prince Frederik (6.) to commission works from Thorvaldsen for th...
27.3.1804
Stanley requests permission from the Royal Academy to remain in Naples until he has recovered fro...
Antagelig april-juni 1804
Sender Arnold Wallick
Arnold Wallick sends greetings to Thorvaldsen from Rome and asks him whether the bust of Mathias ...
5.4.1804
Stanley has been well and ill by turns all winter. He will not be able to come to Rome until he h...
10.4.1804
Stanley is not sure if Thorvaldsen received his last letter and writes more or less the same thin...
Medio april 1804
Recipient Fonden ad usus publicos
Thorvaldsen is grateful for the grant which has encouraged him while he was suffering from low sp...
Recipient Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen writes that he has received a grant of 300 rix-dollars from the Danish King. He thank...
24.4.1804
Thorvaldsen is very grateful for the grant and asks that his deepest gratitude may be conveyed to...
18.6.1804
Sender C.F. Hansen
Hansen is going to commission works for Christiansborg from Thorvaldsen, but as the rebuilding of...
6.8.1804
Recipient Anna Maria Uhden
Thorvaldsen apologizes for not having written before since he has been busy travelling. He has ar...
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen tells Abildgaard how devastated he was when he received the ...
Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that he has been seriously ill. He asks Abildgaard’s permission to...
10.8.1804
Sender Anna Maria Uhden
Anna Maria Uhden has received Thorvaldsen’s letter from J.L. Lund. She is pleased to know that Th...
23.9.1804
Sender Accademia Fiorentina, Giovanni degli Alessandri
9.10.1804
Stanley thanks Schubart for recommending him to people in Denmark. He feels almost cured after tw...
22.10.1804
Stanley congratulates Thorvaldsen on his appointment as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in ...
Sandsynligvis før 27.10.1804
Recipient C.F.F. Stanley
In two draft letters Stanley is thanked for his congratulations on Thorvaldsen’s appointmen...
27.10.1804
Fragment of a draft letter. Thorvaldsen thanks the Schubarts.
2.11.1804
Schubart reports that Thorvaldsen’s portrait busts of himself and Jacqueline Schubart, A718...
13.11.1804
Stanley is ready to go to Rome but is stopped by the news of an epidmic in the area around Leghor...