Recommendation or introduction letter, others
Hans Rosenkilde
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rosenkilde recommends Arnold Wallick, who is studying to become a scene painter. He tells Thorval...
Waldemar Henrik Rothe
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The theologian Waldemar Henrik Rothe thanks Thorvaldsen for his friendship during his stay in Rom...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard recommends the bearer of the letter, Carl Christian Seydewitz, to Thorvaldsen. He comm...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart has read in a newspaper that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of ...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart recommends Adam Anthony Stratenus and Cornelius Johannes Kneppelhout to Thorvaldsen.
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart recommends C.F. Høyer to Thorvaldsen. He hopes to come to Rome when the hostilities are ...
Adam Anthony Stratenus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stratenus is annoyed that he did not find Thorvaldsen at home. He encloses Herman Schubart’...
Antagelig ultimo 1808 - ultimo marts 1811
Wilhelm von Huth
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Huth asks Thorvaldsen to send him 30 scudi for travelling equipment and prepayment of board and l...
C.F. Høyer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Johan Jacob Ekman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ekman sends his letter with the Swedish sculptor Byström, whom he recommends. He requests news fr...
Hans West
Bertel Thorvaldsen
West introduces Thorvaldsen to a young man by the name of Poninski.
Hans West
Bertel Thorvaldsen
West writes about political and economic conditions in Denmark and the rest of Europe. He describ...
Heinrich Keller
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Keller recommends his wife’s brother, the engraver Filippo Tosetti, to Thorvaldsen with ref...
Caroline von Humboldt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Humboldt recommends Wilhelm von Burgsdorff, who is visiting Rome with his wife, and asks Thorvald...
Caroline von Humboldt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Humboldt recommends the Prince of Anhalt-Pleß. She misses Rome. She writes about the development ...
Caroline von Humboldt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Humboldt is sending the letter with the Prince of Weimar, Count von Ettling, and Baron von Gersdo...
Niccola Benvenuti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Olav Olavsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Olavsen recommends H.E. Freund to Thorvaldsen. He sends a ring with Freund in order to thank Thor...
Johann Paul Schulthesius
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schulthesius recommends Salvatore Pietro Janer to Thorvaldsen.
Pietro Benvenuti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Benvenuti recommends the painter Martelli and the writer Janer, who is also bringing letters to T...
Konrad Heinrich Schweickle
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schweickle recommends the artist Gaetano Roberti to Thorvaldsen.
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon has talked to the German publisher and printer Johann Friedrich Wenner about the publica...
Wilhelm Heigelin
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recommendation of the Italian apprentice sculptor Antonio Calí.
Christian Heigelin
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Heigelin supports his nephew William Heigelin’s recommendation of the Italian apprentice sc...
Heinrich Steffens
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Steffens reminds Thorvaldsen of their youth in the dramatic society, Borup’s Society. He recommen...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart recommends his rich friend from Geneva, Bertrand-Favre, to Thorvaldsen. Bertrand-Favre i...
Edward Dodwell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dodwell recommends the English sculptor John Gibson to Thorvaldsen. Gibson is to study in Rome fo...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Peder Friis
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Friis, a friend of Thorvaldsen’s youth, complains teasingly that he has not heard from Thorvaldse...
Arthur Judd Carrighan
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Carrighan recommends some Scottish noblewomen of the Gordon-Cumming family who are staying in Rom...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted has finally received an answer from Thorvaldsen to his latest letters, one of which has...
Peder Anker
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Edward Collins
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Collins recommends the bearer of the letter, Mr. Pendarves.
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva is pleased that Thorvaldsen is with their mutual friend Herman Schubart, and that he ta...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon recommends the British architect Benjamin Dean Wyatt to Thorvaldsen. Knudtzon announces ...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart writes that Christian Carl Friedrich August and Friedrich August Emil of Augustenborg ar...
Jørgen Koch
C.F. Hansen
Recommendation of C.A. Jensen, who is copying two paintings in Rome by Domenichino and Raphael.
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hobhouse introduces his compatriot Joseph Douglas Strutt, who is spending the winter in Rome. He ...
David Ferdinand Koreff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Koreff recommends a friend, probably Joseph Liboschitz (1783-1824), to Thorvaldsen.
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hobhouse introduces a Mr. Harris, who is going to study in Rome. Hobhouse expresses an ardent wis...
B.S. Ingemann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
B.S. Ingemann writes that Thorvaldsenis missed in Denmark. He tells him that the painter Andreas ...
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dahl asks Thorvaldsen to find acquaintances and work for Götzloff, who is coming to Rome to study...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski introduces Bernard Potocki, a nephew of Włodzimierz Potocki, who is coming to Rome. H...
Jørgen Koch
Hanne Dalgas
An introduction to the Danes who will soon come to Naples: Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Ludwig, Juliane...
Sulpiz Boisserée
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Boisserée recommends the painter Karl Joseph Begas from Cologne, who has received a royal scholar...
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...
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dahl asks Thorvaldsen to find work for Carl Wagner and Ernst Oehme, who are coming to Rome. He al...
Sulpiz Boisserée
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Arthur Judd Carrighan
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Carrighan recommends John Gage Rokewode, brother of the late Thomas Gage, and Thomas Gage’s widow...
Camillo Landini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Landini writes from Saint Petersburg to recommend the sculptor Orlovsky, who has successfully car...
Rudolf Emanuel Wettstein
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Wettstein asks Thorvaldsen for a recommendation of the Swiss painter Hieronimus Hess. He has hear...
Leo von Klenze
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Søren Jørgensen Breder
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
The clergyman Søren Jørgensen Breder describes Hans Henrik Gunnerus as an honest man and a loving...
Ludwig Schorn
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schorn recommends three young German painters from Würtemberg, Gegenbaur, Gutekunst and Fuchs, wh...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Accademia Fiorentina, Giovanni degli Alessandri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni degli Alessandri recommends a student, Tommaso Gasperini, to Thorvaldsen. Gasperini is c...
George Augustus Wallis
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Gaetano Buzzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Buzzi recommends the young sculptor Ranieri Bartolini, who is coming to Rome to study sculpture. ...
Pietro Benvenuti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Benvenuti recommends the young Italian sculptor Ranieri Bartolini to Thorvaldsen and hopes that t...
Trajan Wallis
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Wallis recommends the young sculptor Ranieri Bartolini to Thorvaldsen.
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Heinrich Kohlrausch
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kohlrausch recommends a major Wildermeth and asks Thorvaldsen to inform him how he can acquire a ...
Johann August Gottlob Weigel
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Johann Nepomuk Schaller
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Niels Schønberg Kurtzhals
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kurtzhals recommends Ole Jørgen Schmidt to Thorvaldsen. He misses the sculptor and hopes that the...
Christian Horneman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recommendation of the Danish architect Ole Jørgen Schmidt, who is going to Italy. Horneman’...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Hermann Ernst Freund
Note regarding Francisco Lami and the ship L’Anime del Purgatorio.
Pietro Benvenuti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Benvenuti recommends the sculptor Emilio Santarelli, whom he wants Thorvaldsen to take on as his ...
Maria Szymanowska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Szymanowska sends this letter with her cousin, Mr. Wołowski, and his wife. They are going to visi...
John Parke
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Letter of recommendation to Thorvaldsen regarding Parke’s brother, Major Parkes, who would ...
Alexander von Humboldt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Humboldt introduces Étienne Gautier, who is the son of a wealthy family of art lovers. Gautier is...
Malthe Conrad Bruun
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bruun recommends a young French chemist and botanist to Thorvaldsen. He expresses his admiration ...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recommendation of Carl Wilhelm Heber to Thorvaldsen.
Józef Grassi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bianca Milesi Mojon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Milesi Mojon recommends the recently arrived Scottish sculptor Alexander Ritchie to Thorvaldsen. ...
N.C. Lunzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Maria Szymanowska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Szymanowska has been reunited with her parents and her children in Warsaw, and they are all fine....
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound thanks Thorvaldsen for having taken on the Scottish sculptor Alexander R...
Jacques-Ignace Hittorff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hittorff recommends the architect Felix Wilhelm Kubli, who brings Thorvaldsen a leaflet on his pu...
Jacques-Ignace Hittorff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hittorff recommends the architect Felix Wilhelm Kubli, who brings Thorvaldsen a leaflet on his pu...
Maria Szymanowska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Szymanowska, who is now living in Saint Petersburg in order to be able to support her family, sen...
Giovanni Battista Bassi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bassi recommends the Italian painter Pietro Paoletti to Thorvaldsen.
Agostino Chiaveri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Letter of introduction for the English painter John Bryant Lane.
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dahl recommends the landscape painter Evelina Stading. Dahl knows that Frederik 6. is going to se...
Christian Gottlieb Kühn
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recommendation of the German sculptor Otto Sigismund Runge.
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Melchiorre Missirini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Claudio Monti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Johann Gottlob Samuel Rösel
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Thorleifur Repp
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Repp recommends a young painter, Surenne, to Thorvaldsen. At the moment, Surenne is studying in P...
Maria Szymanowska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Szymanowska sends the letter with one Grev de Ricci, who is going to Rom, and repeats how pleased...
Luigi Biondi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
John Foster the younger
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian Horneman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hornemann recommends the composer Frølich, who intends to spend a year in Italy. He does not like...
Adam Oehlenschläger
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Adam Oehlenschläger recommends the composer J.F. Frøhlich to Thorvaldsen. He is pleased that the ...
Maria Szymanowska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Szymanowska sends the letter with the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, who she thinks will greatly ap...
Ludwig Wilhelm Wichmann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Frederik Siegfried Vogt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Antagelig tidligst sommeren 1829
Eduard Gerhard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recommendation of the painter Franz Hill.
Claus Christian Bang
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
J.S. Harford
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
D. Claussen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Geltrude Versari
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Geltrude Versari asks Thorvaldsen to take good care of her son, Alessandro Manzoni, who is coming...
Friedrich Thøming
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thøming recommends the works of three painters from Munich as potential collector’s objects.
François-Joseph Navez
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Navez asks Thorvaldsen to receive Adolphe Quetelet in his workshop.
Karl Viktor von Bonstetten
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bonstetten recommends the Swiss sculptor Raphael Christen to Thorvaldsen.
Anastasie de Circourt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Anastasie de Circourt recommends the Swiss sculptor Raphael Christen to Thorvaldsen.
Jacques-Ignace Hittorff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hittorff recommends the French architect Jean Pollet. He hopes to see Thorvaldsen and Rome again ...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recommendation of the Scottish sculpture student Patric Park.
Luigi Basiletti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Basiletti writes to Thorvaldsen from Brescia to introduce him to Count Fenaroli, who is on a trip...
Juliane Marie Jessen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Ippolito Fenaroli
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Fenaroli writes to Thorvaldsen from Naples to recommend his friend Luini, who is travelling to Ro...
Ingeborg Christine Wibe
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Henrich Mathias Wilhelm Klingberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Alexander Hamilton Douglas
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Duke of Hamilton recommends the young sculptor Patrick Park, who is going to study in Rome. H...
Alexander Ritchie
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ritchie asks Thorvaldsen to give a visiting Scottish painter a good reception.
Not earlier than November 1832
Pietro Oggioni
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Eduard Magnus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Magnus recommends his friend Eduard Scholl, an art-lover, to Thorvaldsen and hopes that he or Bie...
Pietro Oggioni
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Ferdinand Flor
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ferdinand Flor recommends the German architect Friedrich Stammann. He himself has been in London,...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted recommends the German architect Friedrich Stammann. He asks Thorvaldsen to send some bo...
Robert Schmidt von der Launitz
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not yet available.
Christian Daniel Rauch
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rauch recommends the bearer of the letter, the German pianist and composer Otto Nicolai, who has ...
Francesco Valentini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Franziska Caspers
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Caspers thinks of the times spent in Thorvaldsen’s company in Rome and hopes that their ties of f...
J.S. Harford
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
J.S. Harford
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Agostino Meneghini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christoph Friedrich Karl von Kölle
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Von Kölle recommends the bearer of the letter, Wolfgang Menzel, to Thorvaldsen.
Jacob Felsing
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Ernst Mayer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Hermann Matsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Fr. Amoli
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Amoli writes this letter to introduce his cousin, Sievert. He remembers the old days; many of the...
Philippe-Louis-Marie-Ghislain Vilain XIIII
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Karl August Nicander
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicander recommends Sällström to Thorvaldsen and reminds him that he has promised him a work.
Robert Schmidt von der Launitz
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recommendation of the American apprentice sculptor Thomas Crawford, who is coming to Rome. Launit...
Maria Callcott
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Callcott introduces her cousin, Captain Dundas, and his wife and asks Thorvaldsen to show them th...
Ludvig Bødtcher
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In the company of Captain Louis de Coninck, Ludvig Bødtcher is on his way to Leghorn, from where ...
Christian Friedrich Tieck
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Friedrich Tieck recommends the sculptor Carl Steinhäuser to Thorvaldsen.
Gaspare Galeazzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
After many tribulations, Galeazzi has had 12 Byron medals struck at the Mint in Turin. He has als...
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A recommendation of the sculptor Wolf von Hoyer and news about Dahl’s failing health.
Georgina M. Waddington
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Waddington recommends the painter Frederick Hurlstone, who would like to see Thorvaldsen’s works ...
Broder Lysholm Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon recommends the bearer of the letter, the English politician Thomas Dyke Acland, who is g...
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...
John Gibson
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Gibson wonders that John Lough neither visits other sculptors’ workshops nor receives visits in h...
Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard hopes that Thorvaldsen will manage to visit him and his family before their impending de...
David Ferdinand Koreff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Doctor Koreff recommends his colleague Allertz and asks for a drawing which Thorvaldsen once prom...
Luigi Chiaveri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chiaveri recommends the British politician J.C. Herries for a visit to Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
Ferdinand Pettrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Friedrich Stammann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Friedrich Stammann recommends the Austrian Count Harrach to Thorvaldsen and asks Thorvaldsen to i...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Karl Friedrich Wiebeking
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Gaspare Galeazzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Galeazzi introduces the bearer of the letter, Mr. Debianchi, who brings five medals. He is a cred...
Eduard Magnus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Johan Wilhelm Negithon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Two testimonials declaring that Johan Wilhelm Negithon and his family are very poor and needy.
Joseph von Koss
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Peder Malling
Jens Petersen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Ferdinand Pettrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Friedrich Gustav Habel
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Niklas Müller
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Ludwig von Schwanthaler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schwanthaler recommends the young sculptor Friedrich Brugger to Thorvaldsen.
Ferdinand Hiller
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hiller asks Thorvaldsen to receive Henri Lehmann.
Philipp Joseph von Rehfues
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Eduard Magnus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Gustaf Henric Ekman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gustaf Henrik Ekman recommends the Swedish sculptor Johan Peter Molin. He reminds Thorvaldsen tha...