Commissions, not Accepted and Unrealized
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J.F. Clemens
J.L. Lund
On behalf of Johan Bülow, Clemens inquires about Thorvaldsen’s price of a marble copy of an...
J.F. Clemens
J.L. Lund
Several messages concerning, among other things, Johan Bülow’s interset in a marble copy of...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart is pleased with Thorvaldsen’s appointment as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts...
Filippo Mazzei
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Filippo Mazzei writes to Thorvaldsen, whom he has not been able to meet in Rome, in order to invi...
Filippo Mazzei
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mazzei contacts Thorvaldsen to clarify a misunderstanding about the size of the sculpture which t...
Filippo Mazzei
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mazzei writes to make sure that the price of Thorvaldsen’s sculpture has been given in scud...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart writes that, on behalf of the American government, Thomas Hall requests Thorvaldsen to e...
Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
Omnes
Thorvaldsen competes with Antonio Canova for the commission for a colossal statue of Liberty to t...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for not having been in contact with regard to the commission for a monumen...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen commissions works from Thorvaldsen. For the façade of Christiansborg Palace, he wants...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen suggests that the statues of Solon and Lycurgus for the Copenhagen city hall and cour...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart is pleased that Thorvaldsen has received commissions from Denmark. He is going to ask Ch...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The building commission will forward an advance payment at 1000 scuid to Thorvaldsen. Hansen sugg...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace informs Thorvaldsen that he will receive an adv...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen has received his advance for the works for Christiansborg Palace and Copenhagen town ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Draft: Thorvaldsen refuses to execute the statues of Solon and Lycurgus for the town hall and cou...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans West
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch writes that Thorvaldsen will contribute a relief to the planned monument to Queen Luise.
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Thorvaldsen is working on two caryatids, A55 and A56, which are to flank a plaque that commemorat...
Elisa Baciocchi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elisa Baciocchi wants to change the subject of one of the reliefs which she intends to commission...
Elisa Baciocchi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of Elisa Baciocchi, Poccianti sends a drawing with measurements in connection with a co...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Thorvaldsen is in Florence in connection with Elisa Baciocchi’s commissions. Jacqueline Schubart’...
Pietro Benvenuti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Benvenuti writes that Thorvaldsen’s portrait bust of him has been cast in plaster, and that the s...
Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Osterman-Tolstaja describes a monument that she wants to erect to her beloved brother, and that s...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon writes that he has returned to Norway. He looks forward to seeing Thorvaldsen in Copenha...
Georgina M. Waddington
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Waddington informs Thorvaldsen that her daughter is to marry Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, wh...
Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen
Christiana Bunsen
Bunsen’s mother-in-law Georgiana M. Waddington has contacted Thorvaldsen in order to ask him to m...
Thomson Bonar
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bonar asks Thorvaldsen to send him a sketch of the relief of the Three Marys and the angel at Chr...
Thomson Bonar
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bonar sends a death mask of his son, Thomson Henry Bonar, and asks Thorvaldsen to execute a portr...
Theodor von der Ropp
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ropp thanks Thorvaldsen after having received Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, Venus with the Appl...
Thomson Bonar
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bonar has received Thorvaldsen’s letter, and now he wants to know when his son’s bust and the rel...
Thomson Bonar
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bonar gives Thorvaldsen more details regarding the funerary monument to his son Thomson Henry Bon...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt is pleased that Rauch has been commissioned to execute a monument to the Ge...
Peder Friis
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Peder Friis, a friend of Thorvaldsen’s youth, sends a greeting to Thorvaldsen. His son, Frederik ...
Jørgen Koch
G.F. Hetsch
Koch will soon move into Casa Buti. Thorvaldsen is modelling Mercury about to Kill Argus, cf. A5....
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon recommends the British architect Benjamin Dean Wyatt to Thorvaldsen. Knudtzon announces ...
Veronica Zauli Guarini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Veronica Zauli Guarini has called in vain on Thorvaldsen to hear whether he will execute her bust...
Atanazy Raczyński
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Raczyński has spoken to Joh. Carl Löwe about the transportation from Rome to Poznań of the statu...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Atanazy Raczyński
Thorvaldsen regrets that he cannot send Ganymede Offering the Cup, cf. A41, to Raczyński as the s...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius bought cameos after Night, cf. A369, and Day, cf. A370, finished his diary, and went fo...
Elisabeth Chitrowo
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elizabeth Chitrowo writes to Thorvaldsen in order to persuade him to execute a bas-relief for a f...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted recommends places and friends that he thinks Thorvaldsen should visit on his journey to...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted blames Thorvaldsen for not travelling to Denmark by the route recommended to him. Brønd...
P.O. Brøndsted
Marie Aagaard
Brøndsted is pleased that Thorvaldsen has arrived in Denmark and has met his family. He asks for ...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted writes that he has been busy showing the newly arrived Royal Couple from Denmark around...
Christian Molbech
Omnes
Molbech’s account of his visit to Rome, in which he compares Thorvaldsen and Canova and describes...
H.F.J. Estrup
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Estrup invites Thorvaldsen to visit him and the family Scavenius at Klintholm Manor.
Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Omnes
Allgemeine Zeitung reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Berlin and Dresden, on his coming visi...
Redaktørerne ved Il Messaggere Tirolese
Omnes
Thorvaldsen arrives in Vienna after a stay at Troppau, where he met the Russian and the Austrian ...
Franz Ludwig Sartorius
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sartorius writes that he has arranged for Thorvaldsen to inspect the site for the projected monum...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen has modelled Christ, cf. A82 and the apostles Peter, cf. A86 and Paul, cf. A103 in clay.
Stanisław Grabowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Grabowski is pleased to have been informed that Thorvaldsen is willing to advise and guide the ar...
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
The Earl of Minto describes a visit to Thorvaldsen’s and Canova’s workshops and compa...
Peter Norden Sølling
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Supplement to a letter. Peter Norden Sølling describes a relief which he wants Thorvaldsen to mak...
Anton Endres
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
A survey of works commissioned from Thorvaldsen in 1823 by Schönborn, cf. A177, A233, A827, A411 ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tekla Potocka
Thorvaldsen thanks Tekla Potocka for her two letters and informs her that the statue of her husba...
Julie von Dörnberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Julie von Dörnberg sends her late son Unico von Dörnberg’s death mask to Thorvaldsen and asks him...
Frederico Gürtler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gürtler informs Thorvaldsen that he has packed and sent the young Baron Unico von Dörnberg’s deat...
William Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Russell would like to visit Thorvaldsen’s workshop with some English friends, Mr. and Mrs. ...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
An inquiry about Thorvaldsen’s sculptural decorations for the Church of Our Lady and Christ...
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound thanks Thorvaldsen for having taken on the Scottish sculptor Alexander R...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The letter expresses dissatisfaction with the number of works for the Church of Our Lady and Chri...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen is very disappointed about the postponement of the shipment to Denmark of Thorvaldsen...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen has read a letter from Hermann Ernst Freund concerning the forthcoming transportation...
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commission thanks Thorvaldsen for Christ, cf. A82, and the twelve apostles for the Church of ...
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Cancellation of the commission for two marble candelabra which Thorvaldsen was to have executed f...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ove Malling
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kirkebygningskommissionen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
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...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Clarification of circumstances relating to the commissions for Christiansborg Palace and the Chur...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Frederik 6. has approved C.F. Hansen’s drawings for the great hall and two adjoining apartments o...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen expresses his gratitude for two letters from the Building Commission for Christiansbo...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A unanimous Goethe committee wants Thorvaldsen to execute a representation of J.W. Goethe for the...
C.G. Clausen, Redaktørerne ved Jyllandsposten, NN
Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Ludvig Müller
Christian 8.
Müller sends a report to Christian 8. on Danish artists in Rome. He gives a detailed description ...
After 1.2.1842, before 15.2.1842
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Sixth draft of the letter dated 15.2.1842. The draft is considerably longer than the final letter.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
The Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace has been asked to commission four marble statue...