Gifts from Thorvaldsen, Artworks
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen tells Abildgaard how devastated he was when he received the ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that he has been seriously ill. He asks Abildgaard’s permission to...
Jacqueline Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jacqueline Schubart expresses her delight with Thorvaldsen’s drawing Cupid and the Butterfl...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart writes that, on behalf of the American government, Thomas Hall requests Thorvaldsen to e...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen sends the drawing Caritas, C820, as a birthday present to Jacqueline Schubart.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen sends the drawing Caritas, C820, as a birthday present to Jacqueline Schubart.
Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A.G.D. Moltke transfers 200 piastres for his bust, cf. A212, regretting the delay. He would like ...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
The artists from Casa Buti have invited Caroline von Humboldt to dinner on her birthday, and she ...
Franziska Caspers
Charlotte Thierry
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Rauch can get the latest news about Thorvaldsen from Karl Wilhelm Wach. Frances Mackenzie has bro...
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dahl asks Thorvaldsen to find acquaintances and work for Götzloff, who is coming to Rome to study...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Thorvaldsen responds to Gunnerus’ letter of 16.3.1822. He feels sympathy for Gunnerus and his unh...
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gunnerus thanks Thorvaldsen for the donation of the relief Caritas, cf. A598. Gunnerus has approa...
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gunnerus writes that he still has not heard from the German baron and financier Nathan Mayer von ...
Gerhard Stub
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gerhard Stub informs Thorvaldsen that he has received a painting of the town of Trondheim sent by...
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gunnerus thanks Thorvaldsen once again for his donation of the relief Caritas, cf. A598. Gunnerus...
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
From prison Gunnerus requests that the relief Caritas, cf. A598, be sold as quickly as possible. ...
Accademia di Belle Arti, Perugia, Cesare Massari
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Massari acknowledges the receipt of a plaster cast of Shepherd Boy by Thorvaldsen.
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gunnerus informs Thorvaldsen that he has handed over his deed of gift of 24.5.1822 and the owners...
Gerhard Stub
Hermann Ernst Freund
Gerhard Stub replies to Freund’s letter of 3.11.1823. He informs him that the relief Caritas, cf....
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accounts for the roughhewing of the relief Cupid Received by Anacreon, Winter, A827,
C.W. Eckersberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A warm greeting from Copenhagen, which Thorvaldsen acknowledges by sending Eckersberg’s bust, A78...
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dahl sends a greeting through Johan Christian Fick and promises Thorvaldsen a painting.
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gunnerus tells Thorvaldsen that time is running out. In the past three years since Thorvaldsen do...
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gunnerus has heard that the relief Caritas, cf. A598, will arrive in Copenhagen from Leghorn the ...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Most of Thorvaldsen’s artworks have arrived safely in Copenhagen though some of the plaster...
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 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...
Conrad Rantzau
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rantzau writes from Nice, where he is staying in his capacity of travelling companion to Prince F...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In consequence of a royal ordinance, the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace ask Thorva...
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dahl recommends the landscape painter Evelina Stading. Dahl knows that Frederik 6. is going to se...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Maria Szymanowska
Thorvaldsen is pleased to hear that the crate with Nicolaus Copernicus and Szymanowska’s bu...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thomas Hope
Thorvaldsen sends Hope the statue of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, 25 years after the contr...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thomas Hope
Thorvaldsen sends Hope the statue of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, 25 years after the contr...
Thomas Hope
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hope gratefully acknowledges receipt of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, the portrait busts of...
Christina Alexandra Egypta Bonaparte
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bonaparte writes about a journey she and her husband, Lord Dudley Stuart, have taken in which the...
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s bust of Dahl, A229, has finally arrived in Dresden. Dahl writes that a crate with t...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hansen hopes to see Thorvaldsen and his works for Christiansborg Palace and the Church of Our Lad...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has visited Thorvaldsen and was comforted and encouraged by him after having told him ab...
Karl August Nicander
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicander recommends Sällström to Thorvaldsen and reminds him that he has promised him a work.
Maria Callcott
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Callcott remembers that Thorvaldsen addressed her as “friend” in Danish and asked her to write. S...
Presumably after 1836, before 1841
F. Alleyne McGeachy
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Alleyne McGeachy recommends his wife’s younger brother to Thorvaldsen, hoping that the sculptor w...
David Ferdinand Koreff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Doctor Koreff recommends his colleague Allertz and asks for a drawing which Thorvaldsen once prom...
Melchiorre Missirini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Missirini thanks Thorvaldsen for the relief Cupid Riding on a Lion, which the sculptor has given ...
Georg von Reinbeck
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of the King of Württemberg, Wilhelm I, Reinbeck thanks Thorvaldsen for his readiness to...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A.S. Cabot
Dedication by Thorvaldsen affixed on the back of a portrait painted by Blunck
Georg von Reinbeck
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Reinbeck thanks Thorvaldsen for the first shipment of plaster casts for the planned museum in Stu...
Karl von Kolb
Georg von Reinbeck
In this excerpt of a letter from Kolb to Reinbeck, Kolb lists the plaster casts received by Thorv...
Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of the Schiller Association – and especially on his own behalf – the chairm...
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.
Adam Oehlenschläger
Caroline Amalie, Christian 8.
Poem to King Christian 8. and Queen Caroline Amalie on the occasion of their silver anniversary 2...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 42th part of 60 in all.
Christian Dalgas
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Stampe family have left Leghorn, and Dalgas is looking forward to seeing Thorvaldsen in Augus...
Christine Stampe
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stampe is much agitated and writes that she misses Thorvaldsen so much that she feels ill and urg...
Frederikke Wallick
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Frederikke Wallick thanks Thorvaldsen for offering to make a drawing in her album and will send i...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 55th part of 60 in all.
Johann Scholl
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Scholl testifies that the version of the relief The Graces Listening to Cupid’s Song , A602 that ...
Tidligst 1878, senest 1905 (1835-1836)
Charles Bowyer Adderley
Omnes
Adderley describes his stay in Rome in 1835-36, when he stayed with Thorvaldsen for a time. He wa...