Portrait Statues, Contemporary Persons
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John Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Russell informs Thorvaldsen that he has sent the first half of the payment for a relief, and that...
Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Osterman-Tolstaja describes a monument that she wants to erect to her beloved brother, and that s...
John Russell 2.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
John Russell, son of the 6th Duke of Bedford by the same name, asks Thorvaldsen to complete the p...
John Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Russell asks Thorvaldsen to complete two reliefs, Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, and Priam Plead...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Mokronowski
Thorvaldsen writes that the wording of Mokronowski’s last letter might give the impression that h...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen has completed Goddess of Hope, A47, which Caroline von Humboldt greatly admires. The ...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski answers two letters from Thorvaldsen of March 1818. He also sends a specification of ...
John Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Russell has heard that two reliefs, which he has commissioned from Thorvaldsen, Briseis and Achil...
Jørgen Koch
Jonas Collin
Koch writes about Thorvaldsen’s works and commissions. The sculptor has completed Mercury a...
Leon Potocki
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Preliminary contract regarding the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123. Thorvaldsen ...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s last letter has been received with pleasure. The committee is now convinced of his ...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski writes that since his last letter to Thorvaldsen he has collected all the pictures of...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Mokronowski
Thorvaldsen has postponed answering Mokronowski’s letter because he has been waiting to get vario...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius bought cameos after Night, cf. A369, and Day, cf. A370, finished his diary, and went fo...
P.O. Brøndsted
Marie Aagaard
Brøndsted tells Aagaard that Thorvaldsen has left Rome, which is good because there were so many ...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted blames Thorvaldsen for not travelling to Denmark by the route recommended to him. Brønd...
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Omnes
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Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the progress of work in the workshop in Rome. He mentions the work...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted writes that he has been busy showing the newly arrived Royal Couple from Denmark around...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tekla Potocka
This contract establishes the conditions for the execution of the funerary monument to Włodzimier...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Mokronowski
A supplementary contract which elaborates the conditions of the original contract of 8.7.1818. A ...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Canova’s workshop and comments on the sculptor’s works. Then he visits Thorvaldsen’s works...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Has visited Thorvaldsen and is pleased with the sketch, Nysø34, for the statue of Caroline Amalie...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski introduces Bernard Potocki, a nephew of Włodzimierz Potocki, who is coming to Rome. H...
Tekla Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tekla Potocka tells Thorvaldsen that she has not written to him because she has asked her brother...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Grabowski
Thorvaldsen expresses his grief at the death of Stanisław Mokronowski. He regrets that several pr...
F. Louis Coué
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Coué mentions an earlier letter sent through J.G. Schadow and Rudolf Schadow. He supposes that th...
Leon Potocki
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Potocki urgently requests a definite date of delivery of the moulds for the equestrian statue of ...
Franciszek Maria Lanci
Anna Potocka
Lanci has made a drawing of the only place in the Wawel Cathedral in Cracow at their disposal for...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik sends a list of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks that he wants to be...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Grabowski
Thorvaldsen deeply regrets that he has not been able to fulfill the terms of his contract for the...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik wants to know which of Thorvaldsen’s works wil be sent home in the ...
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Omnes
At the moment, Thorvaldsen is working on the monument to the Duke of Leuchtenberg, Eugène de Beau...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen sends a list of the works that can be ready for transportation to Denmark in the spri...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The letter expresses dissatisfaction with the number of works for the Church of Our Lady and Chri...
Leo von Klenze
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Klenze informs Thorvaldsen of the address that he must go to in Munich.The Monument to Eugène de ...
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Omnes
An unnamed woman sees Thorvaldsen’s monument to Eugène de Beauharnais in St. Michael’s Church in ...
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Mendelssohn has seen George Gordon Byron, cf. A130, in clay during a visit to Thorvaldsen’s works...
? Webber
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dr. Webber asks if he and his family may visit Thorvaldsen’s workshop in order to see the m...
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...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik is looking forward to seeing Thorvaldsen again in Copenhagen in the autum...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has visited St. Peter’s Basilica, where he saw Thorvaldsen’s monument to Pius 7., cf. A1...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has visited Thorvaldsen’s workshops and seen Psyche in plaster, A26, and George Gordon B...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Franciszek Paszkowski
Thorvaldsen’s receipt for 4,000 piastres deposited in his account. However, he has not touched th...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Conrad Rantzau
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late answer to Rantzau’s latest letter and mentions the many commi...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 2nd part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 27th part of 60 in all.
Johann Heinrich Maurer (de) Constant
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In a poem, Thorvaldsen is invited to execute a statue to the writer Johannes Müller.
J.F. Schouw
Just Mathias Thiele
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Gustav Edvard Brock
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Brock sends the list of the objects in Thorvaldsen’s estate that Christine Stampe lays clai...