Commission for the Danish Royal Family
See Related Articles on this subject: Sojourn in Denmark, 1819-20 · Transportation of Thorvaldsen's Artworks to Copenhagen 1825 · Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Exhibitions · Commission for the Danish Royal Family
See also: Sojourn in Denmark, 1819-20 · Transportation of Thorvaldsen's Artworks to Copenhagen 1825 · Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Exhibitions · Thorvaldsen and Danish Kingship
Rud Bay
Gottlieb Schønheyder
Rud Bay describes his first encounter with Thorvaldsen. He mentions a wild and drunken party on t...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian Frederik complains that Thorvaldsen is in Copenhagen now that he himself will soon be i...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
P.O. Brøndsted
Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted is curious to know if Aagaard has seen Thorvaldsen’s busts of the Royal Family (Frederi...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Thorvaldsen, who gets the idea of enlarging his professorial residence at the Academy of F...
Jørgen Koch
Christiane Amalie Koch
Thorvaldsen is modelling the bust of Caroline Amalie and will then continue with the bust of Chri...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen begins modelling the bust of Christian (8.) Frederik, cf. A197. The sculptor and the ...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen is working on the bust of Christian (8.) Frederik, cf. A197.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen is working on the bust of Christian (8.) Frederik, cf. A197.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen has finished modelling the bust of Christian (8.) Frederik, cf. A197.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Thorvaldsen in his workshop, where he meets the Russian general Alexander Ivanovich Osterm...
P.O. Brøndsted
Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted mentions four busts recently completed by Thorvaldsen.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Thorvaldsen, who has modelled a bust of the Austrian Prince Karl Philipp von Schwarzenberg...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Thorvaldsen, who is working on the bust of Caroline Amalie, cf. A754.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Has visited Thorvaldsen and is pleased with the sketch, Nysø34, for the statue of Caroline Amalie...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Leaves Rome after a long visit. Thorvaldsen and other artists take leave of the royal couple at L...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Luigi Sommariva
Sommariva writes that Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie are going to present him with m...
Jørgen Koch
Johan Gunder Adler
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian Carl Friedrich August
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva thanks Thorvaldsen for having sent the portrait busts of Christian (8.) Frederik and Ca...
Peder Malling
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
P.O. Brøndsted
Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted complains about having been assigned the “less than amusing” task for Christian (8.) Fr...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Payment of the biannual interest of 225 scudi on the loan of 9000 scudi, which Christian (8.) Fre...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen relates news of the busts of Frederik 6., A859, Marie Sophie Frederikke, A192, Vilhel...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Draft letter dated 29.4.1823. Thorvaldsen relates news of the busts of Frederik 6., A859, Marie S...
E.H. Fleischer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Luigi Bienaimé
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this account is not available at the moment.
NN
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this account is not available at the moment.
Johan Gunder Adler
Hermann Ernst Freund
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Payment of the biannual interest of 225 scudi on the loan of 9000 scudi, which Christian (8.) Fre...
Johan Gunder Adler
Hermann Ernst Freund
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Ernst Schimmelmann, Udenrigsdepartementet, København
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Frederik VI has ordered the brig St. Croix to go to the Mediterranean on its way back from the Da...
Johan Gunder Adler
Hermann Ernst Freund
Freund is put in charge of the packing of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks which are to be ...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik sends a list of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks that he wants to be...
Johan Gunder Adler
Hermann Ernst Freund
List of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks which Christian (8.) Frederik wants to be sent to D...
Hermann Ernst Freund, Bertel Thorvaldsen
Frederik 6.
Extra bill for water-resistant burlap to cover the marbles so that they could be placed on the de...
Martinus Christian de Klauman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Pirates in the waters of the Danish West Indies have been defeated, but they have caused the dela...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
List of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks which were put on board the brig St. Croix in order...
Johan Gunder Adler
Hermann Ernst Freund
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik wants to know which of Thorvaldsen’s works wil be sent home in the ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen sends a list of the works that can be ready for transportation to Denmark in the spri...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen writes which works will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
One of three draft letters, in Thorvaldsen’s own hand, of a fourth draft letter dated 7.2.1...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen lists the works which will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827 and c...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The letter expresses dissatisfaction with the number of works for the Church of Our Lady and Chri...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Adler is surprised that Thorvaldsen has not yet claimed the money which Christian (8.) Frederik h...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
For unknown reasons, the letter has been severely damaged. See instead the draft of the letter fo...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian Frederik has heard that the Alexander Frieze, cf. A503, and Christ, cf. A82, and John t...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The corvette Galathea will arrive at Leghorn around 1.7.1833, and Thorvaldsen is asked to have th...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen has been unanimously elected director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
An accident with the marble for the portrait statue of Caroline Amalie makes it impossible for Th...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen thanks Hansen for his letters in which he mentions the pleasure, expressed by many pe...
NN
NN
List of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea in ...
NN
NN
List of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea in ...
NN
NN
First part of a list of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corve...
NN
NN
Second part of a list of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corv...
Summer 1839, Christmas 1841 & 1844
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 17th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 60th part of 60 in all.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.