Portrait Busts, Contemporary Persons
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Frederik 6.
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’s receipt for the payment of the bust of A.P. Bernstorff, A856, delivered to...
Margrethe Ackermann, Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is grateful for his son’s last letter and happy that he has arrived safely a...
Jørgen West
Bertel Thorvaldsen
West is happy that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Rome. He relates news of family and friends ...
Karen Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Karen Thorvaldsen misses her son greatly. She is unhappy with her life and her husband. He gives ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen’s draft of his first report to Abildgaard on his activities in Rome. He has visited t...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kunstakademiet, København
Thorvaldsen reports to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he has studied Rome and its sur...
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is happy to have received news from his son. He advises him to send a work o...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kunstakademiet, København
Thorvaldsen informs the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he has sent two samples of his wor...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kunstakademiet, København
Both Thorvaldsen’s semi-annual report to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the works he w...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard reports that the works Thorvaldsen sent to Copenhagen have arrived safely. He complime...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard relates that some people in Copenhagen have accused Thorvaldsen of being lazy in Rome,...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen reports that the transportation of two crates with artworks bound for the Royal Danis...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kunstakademiet, København
Thorvaldsen regrets that his report to the Royal Academy has been delayed. He would have liked to...
Poul Scheel
Georg Zoëga
Scheel has been allowed to enclose a letter to Zoëga in a letter from Friedrich Münter. After hav...
Johan Jacob Ekman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ekman apologizes for the letter being sent so late. He describes the tribulations of his nine-day...
Poul Scheel
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Scheel thanks Thorvaldsen for having accepted his assignment. He further specifies his order for ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen reports that Captain Berger has agreed to ship five crates with artworks, books etc. ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Johan Hartvig Ernst von Berger
Thorvaldsen asks Berger to remove the marble bust of Edmund Bourke, A900, from one of the crates ...
Jørgen West
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jørgen West asks what to do about the bust of Tyge Rothe, A225, which is in the care of Nicolai A...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart has arrived in Naples and invites Thorvaldsen to visit him. He sends travelling expenses...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard is happy about Thorvaldsen’s success in Rome. He has received the busts Thorvaldsen se...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart reports on his efforts to obtain commissions for Thorvaldsen from Denmark. Through her h...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart and his sister Charlotte Schimmelmann for the efforts they are making...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has left him incapable of wor...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Third draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen writes that he has received a grant of 300 rix-dollars from the Danish King. He thank...
Efter 16.7. og senest 6.8.1804
Bertel Thorvaldsen
J.L. Lund
Thorvaldsen asks Lund to take care of his studio while he is gone. He thanks him for having assis...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen tells Abildgaard how devastated he was when he received the ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
J.L. Lund
Thorvaldsen thanks Lund for having assisted him in a financial matter but asks him not to give an...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that he has been seriously ill. He asks Abildgaard’s permission to...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that he has been seriously ill. He asks ...
J.L. Lund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lund thanks Thorvaldsen for his letter and looks forward to their reunion in Rome. He informs Tho...
Poul Scheel
Georg Zoëga
Scheel tells Zoëga to give his regards to Thorvaldsen and ask him not to delay the bust Scheel ha...
Jevdokija Ivanovna Golitsyna
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Golitsyna explains that she has written to the banker Torlonia concerning the money she owes Thor...
Herman Schubart
C.F.F. Stanley
Thorvaldsen is at Montenero, and Schubart writes enthusiastically about The Dance of the Muses on...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart reports that Thorvaldsen’s portrait busts of himself and Jacqueline Schubart, A718...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart wants to know if Thorvaldsen will accept the commission of Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1. B...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late answer to Schubart’s letter. He thanks him for the comm...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart and his wife have moved from Montenero to Pisa, where they have to spend the winter beca...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard recommends the bearer of the letter, Carl Christian Seydewitz, to Thorvaldsen. He comm...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard discusses the payment for the transportation of the crates Thorvaldsen has sent to Cop...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart writes that The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, cf. A705, and the portrait busts of himse...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart forwards the freight bill concerning The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, cf. A705, and th...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart has read in a newspaper that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of ...
Arnold Wallick
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Herman Schubart
C.F.F. Stanley
Schubart thanks Stanley for his letter and asks him to tell Thorvaldsen that he will soon receive...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that the block of marble he has ordered will be sent in the autumn...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Draft: Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that the block of marble he has ordered will be sent in the...
Conrad Rantzau
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rantzau tells Thorvaldsen that he has sent a bill of exchange for 300 piastres to Rome through Zo...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley teases Thorvaldsen because he has not heard from him for a long time, but suddenly a lett...
Johan Georg Wahl
Niels Saabye
Wahl requests Saabye to inform the family of Caspar Bartholin of his death. Thorvaldsen has made ...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard is sympathetic to the idea that Thorvaldsen should remain in Rome for the time being b...
Nicolaus Jac. Stuhr
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stuhr has arrived at Leghorn and informed Herman Schubart that his busts of A.P. Bernstorff, A207...
Herman Schubart
Georg Zoëga
Schubart confers with Zoëga on smuggling a collection of antique coins from Rome to Leghorn on be...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen thanks Abildgaard for helping Gotskalk Thorvaldsen. The war has given Thorvaldsen fin...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for not having been in contact with regard to the commission for a monumen...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard informs Thorvaldsen that he will receive his salary as a professor of the Royal Academ...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart urges Thorvaldsen to come to Montenero. He is pleased that the busts of Herman Schubart,...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the Museo Pio Clementino. He ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the...
Thomas Hope
Omnes
A text from Thomas Hope’s Household Furniture and Interior Decoration from 1807, with illustratio...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart summarizes to Thorvaldsen their mutual financial status and tells him to inform him if h...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Conrad Rantzau
Thorvaldsen tells Conrad Rantzau how work on his commissions is progressing. The portrait bust, c...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart for a bill of exchange. He has had financial problems because the war...
C.F. Høyer
Nicolai Abildgaard
Høyer writes that Thorvaldsen has received an instalment of 100 rix-dollars for the portrait bust...
Laurits Engelstoft
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of Marcus Gerhard Rosencrone, Engelstoft asks Thorvaldsen to execute a portrait bust in...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Laurits Engelstoft
Thorvaldsen accepts the commission for the portrait bust of Henrik Hielmstierne, cf. A210 and spe...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen is unable to come to Montenero because of too much work. He has put off sending casts...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Draft: Thorvaldsen is unable to come to Montenero because of too much work. The Dance of the Muse...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
J.L. Thrane
A reminder to Thrane to pay for his marble bust, Dep.36.
Tidligst september 1807, senest august 1810
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Conrad Rantzau
Thorvaldsen tells Conrad Rantzau that his bust, cf. A211, is ready to be shipped, and that the re...
Laurits Engelstoft
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Engelstoft writes that Marcus Gerhard Rosencrone will soon send the pictorial material that Thorv...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
The commentary for this draft is not available at the moment.
Irina Vorontsova
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Countess Vorontsova has written to Thorvaldsen several times without receiving an answer, so she ...
Barbato Cipriani
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Having no portrait of her husband, Caroline von Humboldt and the couple’s children often visit Th...
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Caroline von Humboldt
Like his wife, Caroline von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Humboldt is not entirely pleased with Thorvalds...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
In Thorvaldsen’s workshop, Caroline von Humboldt has again viewed the bust of her husband. She ap...
Friederike Brun
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A list of the objects that Friederike Brun leaves in storage with Thorvaldsen.
Elisa von der Recke
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elisa von der Recke asks to have the crate with two of the four busts she has commissioned sent t...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, C.R.W. Wiedemann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.R.W. Wiedemann asks Thorvaldsen to execute a monument to his niece Auguste Böhmer, A700-A703. T...
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schelling thanks Thorvaldsen for accepting the commision for Monument to Auguste Böhmer, A700-A70...
Antagelig tidligst december 1811, antagelig senest februar 1815
Conrad Rantzau
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rantzau asks Thorvaldsen to assist him in listing the works which he commissioned from Thorvaldse...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart sends a picture as a model for the portrait bust of Henrik Hielmstierne, cf. A210. Agnet...
C.F. Høyer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Pietro Benvenuti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Benvenuti writes that Thorvaldsen’s portrait bust of him has been cast in plaster, and that the s...
Pietro Benvenuti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Benvenuti recommends the painter Martelli and the writer Janer, who is also bringing letters to T...
Georg Wilhelm Wilding
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The princely couple have arrived safely in Naples, but their continued journey to Sicily has been...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon writes that he, Alexander Baillie, and his brother Hans Carl Knudtzon had a pleasant jou...
Mary Bentinck
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bentinck asks Thorvaldsen to pack and deliver the marble portrait busts of Edward Pellew and Will...
Mary Ann Montagu
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Edward Pellew
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Pellew requests that his portrait bust in marble, cf. Edward Pellew, A260, be sent immediately to...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon has talked to the German publisher and printer Johann Friedrich Wenner about the publica...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen har completed Venus with the Apple, A12, and at least 15 portrait busts of Britons.
J.C. Ulrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ulrich asks when the works commissioned by Alexander Baillie and Jørgen Knudtzon will be ready fo...
Hans Carl Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon reminisces about his journey to Rome and hopes to see Thorvaldsen the following year dur...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon writes that he has returned to Norway. He looks forward to seeing Thorvaldsen in Copenha...
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Latin version of George Byron’s name, followed by two literary quotations by Virgil and Ja...
Between 29.4.1817 og 20.5.1817
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lord Byron is in Rome, and Hobhouse wants Thorvaldsen to portray him. He hopes that Thorvaldsen i...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jørgen Knudtzon
Thorvaldsen writes that he has been very busy working and showing his workshop to English visitor...
Paolo Prossalendi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Prossalendi forwards a commission for a monument to the British governor-general Thomas Maitland,...
Dionisio Bulzo
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bulzo gives instructions concerning the commission for a monument to the British governor-general...
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...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi informs Thorvaldsen that he will act as an intermediary concerning the commission for a m...
Thomson Bonar
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bonar sends a death mask of his son, Thomson Henry Bonar, and asks Thorvaldsen to execute a portr...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi writes that Dionisio Bulzo himself will visit Thorvaldsen and answer all the sculptorR...
Thomson Bonar
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bonar has received Thorvaldsen’s letter, and now he wants to know when his son’s bust and the rel...
Nicolaus Esterházy
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Esterházy acknowledges receipt of Thorvaldsen’s letter, which confirms what they agreed on during...
Redaktørerne ved Grätzer Zeitung
Omnes
Paragraph praising Shepherd Boy, A177, and the bust of Georges Gordon Byron.
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Humboldt has just celebrated her son-in-law August von Hedemann’s birthday with about twenty gues...
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hobhouse has asked the banking firm of Schultheiss to send a crate to Leghorn. They have been tol...
Adam Gottlob Müller
Jørgen Koch
Müller asks Koch to contact Thorvaldsen in Rome regarding the execution of the marble bust of Hen...
Giuditta Nalli
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nalli acknowledges receipt of 4 scudi from Thorvaldsen.
Maria Craufurd
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen is asked to make twelve plaster copies of Jane Craufurd’s bust, cf. A307, and send th...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi writes that the cast of a bust of Thomas Maitland, cf. G342, has finally arrived in Venic...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi has apparently received a letter from Thorvaldsen which has crossed his own letter to the...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
The artists from Casa Buti have invited Caroline von Humboldt to dinner on her birthday, and she ...
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Caroline von Humboldt
Humboldt remarks jokingly that the fact that his bust has been miscoloured must be the punishment...
Lauritz Kruse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
For the Royal Academy in Copenhagen, Christian Frederik commissions “a copy in plaster of all [Th...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi has forwarded Thorvaldsen’s questions about the monument to Thomas Maitland, cf. t...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi presses Thorvaldsen for an answer to his letter of 27.4.1818 and repeats the contents of...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Humboldt is annoyed that Thorvaldsen only started modelling a new bust of her just before her dep...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva has heard that the lapidary Girometti is working on his portrait in cameo. He deeply re...
Christina Alexandra Egypta Bonaparte
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bonaparte blames Thorvaldsen for not having written to her and reminds him of the promises of fri...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Caroline von Humboldt has returned from Rome with a bust that, in her eyes, is still unfinished. ...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen will not accompany Herman Schubart to Denmark but will leave in the spring in the com...
Veronica Zauli Guarini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Veronica Zauli Guarini has called in vain on Thorvaldsen to hear whether he will execute her bust...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Workshop accounts for one or several weeks in November 1818.
Edward Everett
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Everett has commissioned some copies of the bust of Lord Byron without specifying the material. A...
Edward Everett
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Everett asks if Thorvaldsen can deliver the six plaster copies of the bust of Lord Byron as there...
Giovanni Battista Monti
Bartolommeo Pacca, Bertel Thorvaldsen
Export license for a portrait bust, possibly Józef Poniatowski, cf. A249.
Agnete Marie Rosencrone
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Agnete Rosencrone asks Thorvaldsen to send the bust of Henrik Hielmstierne, cf. A210, to Denmark....
Narcyz Makowiecki
Pierre Jullien
Makowiecki asks the banker Jullien to pay Thorvaldsen 50 ecus after the bust of Józef Poniatowski...
N.C.L. Abrahams, N.C. Møhl, Lorens Thortsen
Just Mathias Thiele
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi presses Thorvaldsen for an answer concerning the monument to Thomas Maitland, cf. A258 an...
P.O. Brøndsted
Andreas Christian Gierlew
Brøndsted thanks Gierlew for his letter. He is currently editing his investigations from his expe...
P.O. Brøndsted
Niels Rosenkrantz
Clemens Metternich is leaving Rome in two days and is posing for Thorvaldsen, who is modelling hi...
Clemens Metternich
Eleonore von Kaunitz
Thorvaldsen has modelled Metternich’s bust, cf. A234. The artist will pass through Vienna before ...
Luigi Chiaveri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chiaveri reminds Thorvaldsen that Nicolaus Esterházy’s commission has to be sent off. Esterházy’s...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accounts for payment of wages to Thorvaldsen’s assistants for work on François Gabriel de Bray’s ...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accounts of payments of wages to Thorvaldsen’s assistants for work on: Two marble copies of Wi...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accounts for payment of wages to Thorvaldsen’s assistants for work on: # A bust of Thoms...
Luigi Chiaveri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chiaveri reminds Thorvaldsen that he has promised to deliver a bust, probably of Nicolaus Esterhá...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accounts for payment of wages to Thorvaldsen’s assistants for work on Jurij Aleksándrovitj Golóvk...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accounts of payments concerning the following works by Thorvaldsen: A119, A893, A312, A720, A811,...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accounts for work on two marble busts, one of Nicolaus Esterhàzy and the other of an unnamed frie...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted blames Thorvaldsen for not travelling to Denmark by the route recommended to him. Brønd...
Sandsynligvis oktober 1819-august 1820
Adam Gottlob Müller
Rasmus Emil Bruun
Müller asks Bruun to contact Thorvaldsen regarding his marble bust of Henrik Hielmstierne, cf. A2...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the progress of work in the workshop in Rome. He mentions the work...
Pietro Tenerani
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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...
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hobhouse introduces his compatriot Joseph Douglas Strutt, who is spending the winter in Rome. He ...
John Cam Hobhouse
Joseph Douglas Strutt
Hobgouse sends three letters that may be useful to him. He requests Strutt to ask Thorvaldsen to ...
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 the German painter Adolf Senff and then Thorvaldsen, who is working on a marble version of...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen and Rudolf Schadow model and others draw the beautiful Vittoria Caldoni, whom August ...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Sends a drawing of his bust, cf. either A197 or A753, to Countess Pauline Escalon.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Lega Zambelli
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On Byron’s behalf, Zambelli thanks Thorvaldsen for having finished the bust and asks him to send ...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Leaves Rome after a long visit. Thorvaldsen and other artists take leave of the royal couple at L...
Lega Zambelli
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Zambelli informs Thorvaldsen that Byron will pay all freight charges for the shipment of his bust...
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Torlonia is disappointed that Thorvaldsen has not complied with the agreement to complete Jason w...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Luigi Sommariva
Sommariva writes that Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie are going to present him with m...
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dahl asks Thorvaldsen to find acquaintances and work for Götzloff, who is coming to Rome to study...
Jørgen Koch
Kunstakademiet, København
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva writes to Thorvaldsen from Paris, where he has met Christian (8.) Frederik. They have h...
? (Fru) Butler Claxton
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mrs. Claxton has visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop and wants to knpw the price of a bust of Lo...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva reminds Thorvaldsen to send the marble busts of Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Am...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva asks Thorvaldsen to send the busts of Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie, cf. ...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva thanks Thorvaldsen for having sent the portrait busts of Christian (8.) Frederik and Ca...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Alexander 1.
A note that two busts of the Tsar have been shipped from Rome. Thorvaldsen swears that each strok...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Alexander 1.
A note that two busts of the Tsar have been shipped from Rome. Thorvaldsen swears that each strok...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits C.W. Eckersberg, enjoys his paintings, and sees his casts of Thorvaldsen’s portrait ...
Francesco Tantini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mr. and Mrs. Tantini ask Thorvaldsen to make a plaster cast of the bust of their mutual friend, C...
Cecilia Tantini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Cecilia Tantini writes to convey Conrad Rantzau’s request to send his portrait bust, cf. A211, to...
Anton Endres
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
A survey of works commissioned from Thorvaldsen in 1823 by Schönborn, cf. A177, A233, A827, A411 ...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommarive has heard about the accidental shot that has wounded Thorvaldsen. In Florence, he has t...
Friedrich Bluhme
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Friedrich Bluhme has tried in vain to see Thorvaldsen personally and therefore writes on Tantini’...
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...
François Gabriel de Bray
Bertel Thorvaldsen
De Bray has received the crates with the two reliefs Night, cf. A369, and Day, cf. A370, and his ...
Johann Martin von Wagner
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Wagner writes that the busts commissioned from Thorvaldsen will not be delivered until next summer.
Luigi Bienaimé
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Johann Martin von Wagner
Schönborn writes that the portrait bust of Crown Prince Ludwig (1.) of Bavaria, cf. A233, commiss...
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
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Just Mathias Thiele
Ole Johan Freuchen
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C.W. Eckersberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A warm greeting from Copenhagen, which Thorvaldsen acknowledges by sending Eckersberg’s bust, A78...
Julie von Dörnberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Julie von Dörnberg sends her late son Unico von Dörnberg’s death mask to Thorvaldsen and asks him...
Pirard & Descamps
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Frederico Gürtler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gürtler informs Thorvaldsen that he has packed and sent the young Baron Unico von Dörnberg’s deat...
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dahl sends a greeting through Johan Christian Fick and promises Thorvaldsen a painting.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Caroline von Humboldt
Thing have become quiet at Schloss Tegel: The hall has been furnished, and Wilhelm is making the ...
Pietro Benvenuti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Benvenuti recommends the sculptor Emilio Santarelli, whom he wants Thorvaldsen to take on as his ...
Efter 25.1.1825 og før 26.2.1825
Maria Szymanowska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In this note Szymanowska takes leave of Thorvaldsen and thanks him for immortalizing her. She wri...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik sends a list of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks that he wants to be...
Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Omnes
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Maria Szymanowska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Szymanowska writes from Paris, where she is staying at the moment because her English audience ar...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Luigi Sommariva
Thorvaldsen responds to Sommariva’s letter of complaint regarding his father Giovanni Battista So...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Luigi Sommariva
Thorvaldsen explains that G.B. Sommariva wanted to be portrayed at full length together with Thor...
Just Mathias Thiele
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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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...
Maria Szymanowska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Szymanowska, who is now living in Saint Petersburg in order to be able to support her family, sen...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Aleksander Ivanovitj Osterman-Tolstoj
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Osterman-Tolstoj has commissioned a bust of Zar Alexander 1., cf. A715 or A46, which Thorvaldsen ...
Wriothesley Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Russell regrets that he has to postpone his visit to Thorvaldsen, but he has time after Monday.
Joseph Hermann (den yngre)
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Mathilde Theresia von Irgens-Bergh
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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George Hilaro Barlow
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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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...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Adler is surprised that Thorvaldsen has not yet claimed the money which Christian (8.) Frederik h...
Eliza Glenorchy
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Eliza Glenorchy cancels her appointment with Thorvaldsen and suggests another time.
Frederik Ferdinand Friis
Just Mathias Thiele
Thorvaldsen’s own comments to the manuscript of J.M. Thiele’s first biography of Thorvaldsen.
Luigi Bienaimé
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Honoria Louisa Cadogan
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The sender asks Thorvaldsen to receive the Marquis of Douro and his wife, who want to see Thorval...
Maria Szymanowska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Szymanowska sends the letter with the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, who she thinks will greatly ap...
Luigi Bienaimé
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Thomas Hope
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hope gratefully acknowledges receipt of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, the portrait busts of...
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The subscribers to the monument to Lord Byron have held a meeting. They are grateful that Thorval...
Frederik Ferdinand Friis
Just Mathias Thiele
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H.W. Bissen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ill and in pecuniary distress, H.W. Bissen asks Thorvaldsen for his permission to execute a marbl...
Luigi Bienaimé
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Ludwig Schorn
Schönborn has read that Thorvaldsen is in Munich, and therefore he would like Schorn to ask the s...
Alexander Murray
Bertel Thorvaldsen
W.H. Gibbs writes that Murray has been to see Thorvaldsen, but he was not there. The payment for ...
Edward Divett den yngre
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Narcyz Makowiecki
Receipt for 50 of the 100 scudi which the bust of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A249, costs.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Narcyz Makowiecki
Note regarding the payment of the second half of the price of a marble bust of Józef Poniatowski,...
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Caroline von Humboldt den yngre
Humboldt is against his children’s proposal to place Goddess of Hope at the top of the monument t...
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s bust of Dahl, A229, has finally arrived in Dresden. Dahl writes that a crate with t...
Dorota Barbara Czartoryska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czartoryska asks Thorvaldsen to take the opportunity to write to Zofia Potocka while she is in Vi...
Anselmo Ronchetti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ronchetti has heard that Thorvaldsen’s son-in-law likes the boots. He is eager to see the b...
Jan Radziwonski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dr. Jan Radziwonski forwards a letter from Zofia Potocka and reminds Thorvaldsen that Józefina Ma...
Anselmo Ronchetti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ronchetti takes advantage of Marco Viani’s departure from Milan to send a greeting to Thorv...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen has been unanimously elected director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and ...
John Freeborn
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Friederike Brun
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brun is suffering, she has no hope of recovery and wants to die, but she looks forward to seeing ...
Anselmo Ronchetti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ronchetti thanks Thorvaldsen warmly for the bust of Lord Byron, who will now live on not only thr...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke
A written confirmation that two works of art in Thorvaldsen’s collection in Copenhagen – the pain...
Dorota Barbara Czartoryska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of Alfred Potocki and Zofia Potocka, Czartoryska wants to know which month Thorvaldsen ...
Madame Besson
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Madame Besson asks Thorvaldsen to send a couple of his men with a portrait of Napoleon, cf. A909,...
Alexander von Humboldt
Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen
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Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 7th part of 60 in all.
Johanne Luise Heiberg
Omnes
Heiberg discusses Thorvaldsen’s mental faculties and opposes the widespread idea that he is a naï...
F.C. Olsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Olsen asks if Thotvaldsen has executed a portrait bust of Christine Stampe. The answer is no, but...
J.C. Donnellan
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Emilie Jensine Eckersberg, Albert Thorvaldsen Wilckens, C.F. Wilckens
C.F. Wilckens
Emilie Eckersberg writes to Thorvaldsen’s former valet in order to aks him to help her sell...