Reply from Thorvaldsen Requested
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Johan Jacob Ekman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ekman has received the things he forgot in Rome and wonders why he hasn’t received any letter fro...
C.H. Anckarsvärd
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Anckarsvärd thanks Thorvaldsen for their friendship in Rome and asks him to arrange the transport...
Johan Jacob Ekman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ekman is worried that he has not heard from Thorvaldsen and fears that his bill of exchange and l...
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is happy to have received a letter from Thorvaldsen as rumours in Copenhagen...
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...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley thanks Thorvaldsen for his letter. He very much wants to be in Rome, especially before t...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley has received incorrect treatment by his Italian doctor, but his new German doctor is bett...
Maria Zoëga
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Maria Zoëga asks Thorvaldsen why he avoids her to the extent of not wanting to appear at his wind...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart reports on his efforts to obtain commissions for Thorvaldsen from Denmark. Through her h...
Maria Zoëga
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Maria Zoëga is disappointed that she has not heard from Thorvaldsen and hopes that her letter wil...
Fyodor Matveyev
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Russian painter Fyodor Matveyev forwards a letter from Countess Irina Vorontsova, who through...
Irina Vorontsova
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Countess Vorontsova writes that she has not received an answer to her letter asking Thorvaldsen w...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart asks Thorvaldsen to let him know when he is coming to Montenero, where he can stay and w...
Anna Maria Uhden
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Anna Maria Uhden has received Thorvaldsen’s letter from J.L. Lund. She is pleased to know that Th...
J.L. Lund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lund thanks Thorvaldsen for his letter and looks forward to their reunion in Rome. He informs Tho...
Jevdokija Ivanovna Golitsyna
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Golitsyna explains that she has written to the banker Torlonia concerning the money she owes Thor...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley is planning to remain near Naples until the middle of October and then go to Rome. He wri...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley congratulates Thorvaldsen on his appointment as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in ...
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...
Irina Vorontsova
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Countess Vorontsova inquires about the sculptures which she has commissioned from Thorvaldsen, an...
Filippo Mazzei
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mazzei contacts Thorvaldsen to clarify a misunderstanding about the size of the sculpture which t...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart urges Thorvaldsen to come to Montenero. He is pleased that the busts of Herman 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 ...
J.C. Ulrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
J.C. Ulrich sends a copy of his letter of 15.6.1807 and asks Thorvaldsen to acknowledge receipt o...
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Humboldt is not sure whether he has invited Thorvaldsen for the right day and specifies that he w...
J.D.T. Manthey, Ordenskapitlet, København
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen is awarded the Danish Order of Dannebrog. He is requested to return a signed oath and...
Hans West
Bertel Thorvaldsen
West writes about political and economic conditions in Denmark and the rest of Europe. He describ...
Anna Maria Uhden
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Anna Maria writes that she has not yet received news from him. She hopes that he will return to R...
David Ferdinand Koreff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Koreff teases Thorvaldsen for not having written or sent the drawings he had promised. He asks th...
Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Osterman-Tolstaja describes a monument that she wants to erect to her beloved brother, and that s...
Hans Carl Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon reminisces about his journey to Rome and hopes to see Thorvaldsen the following year dur...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted wonders why he has had no answer to the commission for a monument transmitted in his la...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In his capacity as member of a committee, Mokronowski writes to Thorvaldsen to ask him if he is w...
Guillaume Bertrand-Favre
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertrand-Favre asks when he can call on Thorvaldsen the same day.
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...
Catharina di Branciforte
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Princess regrets that she has not heard from Thorvaldsen since her departure from Rome. She a...
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hobhouse has asked the banking firm of Schultheiss to send a crate to Leghorn. They have been tol...
Catharina di Branciforte
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Princess feels that she has every reason to be angry with Thorvaldsen because she has not hea...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi has apparently received a letter from Thorvaldsen which has crossed his own letter to the...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva misses hearing news from Thorvaldsen and asks about the progress of the marble version ...
Mellem sommeren 1818 og 2.5.1819
Frances Mackenzie
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mackenzie does not know whether Thorvaldsen is going to call on her. If he is, she would not like...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi presses Thorvaldsen for an answer to his letter of 27.4.1818 and repeats the contents of...
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...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski writes that since his last letter to Thorvaldsen he has collected all the pictures of...
Frederik Julius Kaas, J.D.T. Manthey, Ordenskapitlet, København
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The College of Arms reminds Thorvaldsen that he has to send them his biography.
Vincenz Rüttimann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rüttimann reiterates some questions that he wants Thorvaldsen to answer concerning the monument D...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski stresses that the committee has complete confidence in Thorvaldsen’s execution ...
Thomas Hope
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thomas Hope urges Thorvaldsen to finish and deliver Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, commissio...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi presses Thorvaldsen for an answer concerning the monument to Thomas Maitland, cf. A258 an...
Elisabeth Chitrowo
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elizabeth Chitrowo writes to Thorvaldsen in order to persuade him to execute a bas-relief for a f...
Olav Olavsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Olavsen asks if Thorvaldsen has received the ring he sent him via H.E. Freund. He reminds the scu...
Franziska Caspers
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Caspers suffers because she has not heard from Thorvaldsen. She often reads about him in the news...
A.F. Elmquist
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elmquist sends a short story dedicated to Thorvaldsen and urgently requests a gift in return.
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski reminds Thorvaldsen of his promise to visit Warsaw during the summer. He wonders whet...
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hobhouse introduces his compatriot Joseph Douglas Strutt, who is spending the winter in Rome. He ...
Sulpiz Boisserée
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Boisserée writes that he cannot meet Thorvaldsen in Munich as he is in Paris in connection with h...
Between 7.11.1820 and 25.11.1820
Franziska Caspers
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of Princess Grassalkovich, Caspers tells Thorvaldsen that Countess Zichy-Ferraris want...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski has not had news from Thorvaldsen for a long time though he has heard from Stanisław ...
Lega Zambelli
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On Byron’s behalf, Zambelli thanks Thorvaldsen for having finished the bust and asks him to send ...
Lega Zambelli
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Zambelli informs Thorvaldsen that Byron will pay all freight charges for the shipment of his bust...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski refers to his letter of February 3rd with an enclosure concerning the funerary monume...
J.V. Minten
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The late Doctor Ekman’s brother-in-law thanks Thorvaldsen for the letter he sent from Copenhagen....
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Torlonia assumes that Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, is ready to be shipped as Thorvaldsen h...
Auguste-Jean-Marie Carbonneaux
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Carbonneaux has been asked by the Polish committee if he will cast the monument to Józef Poniatow...
Adam Czartoryski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czartoryski informs Thorvaldsen that Mokronowski died on October 19th, the very day of Józef Poni...
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...
F. Louis Coué
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Coué has received a letter from a Parisian bronze caster who is in contact with Thorvaldsen conce...
Joachim Grabien
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Joachim Grabien forwards a letter from J.V. Minten to Thorvaldsen and asks him to send the chests...
F. Louis Coué
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Coué mentions an earlier letter sent through J.G. Schadow and Rudolf Schadow. He supposes that th...
Rudolf Emanuel Wettstein
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Wettstein asks Thorvaldsen for a recommendation of the Swiss painter Hieronimus Hess. He has hear...
Tekla Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tekla Potocka mentions that she has written three letters to Thorvaldsen without hearing from him...
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Torlonia has received several letters from Thomas Hope, who is impatient to have the statue of Ja...
Auguste-Jean-Marie Carbonneaux
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The bronze caster complains that he has not heard more about the casting of the equestrian statue...
Leon Potocki
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Potocki urgently requests a definite date of delivery of the moulds for the equestrian statue of ...
Louise Salvage de Faverolles
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Salvage de Faverolles invites Thorvaldsen for dinner next Monday at her villa in Rome.
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Johan Frederik Bardenfleth
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A greeting from the Danish West Indies, where Governor Bardenfleth (worn out by official duties) ...
Maria Szymanowska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Szymanowska writes three weeks after her arrival in London. She has written to Cornelia Rossi Mar...
Moritz Oppenheim
Bertel Thorvaldsen, Emil Wolff
Oppenheim has returned safely from a journey to Northern Italy and the southern part of Germany. ...
Stanisław Grabowski, Józef Sierakowski, Walenty Sobolewski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The committee expresses great concern regarding the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A...
Edward Czarnecki
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czarnecki reminds Thorvaldsen that he signed a contract 30.9.1820 for a statue of Copernicus, cf....
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of Thomas Hope, Torlonia urges Thorvaldsen to finish the statue of Jason with the Golde...
Maria Szymanowska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Szymanowska, who is now living in Saint Petersburg in order to be able to support her family, sen...
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of Thomas Hope, Torlonia urges Thorvaldsen to finish the statue of Jason with the Golde...
J.V. Minten
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Minten sends his letter to Thorvaldsen with a Swedish traveller, Fröding, who is going to Rome. M...
Anna Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Potocka wants to know what Thorvaldsen is working on at the moment, and what progress is being ma...
N.C.L. Abrahams
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abrahams sends a report from Paris. He has met the bronze caster Louis-Claude-Ferdinand Soyer, wh...
Anna Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Anna Potocka mentions that she wrote to Thorvaldsen from Vienna five months ago but received no a...
H.W. Bissen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bissen recounts his journey on foot to Florence and mentions that he has seen Thorvaldsen’s Chris...
Stanisław Grabowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Grabowski reports that the plaster model of Józef Poniatowski, A123, has reached Danzig (Gdańsk) ...
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In his capacity of chairman of a committee, Hobhouse asks Thorvaldsen if he will accept a commiss...
Auguste-Jean-Marie Carbonneaux
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The bronze caster writes that an accident nearly cost him his life, and that it has taken him fiv...
Ernst Schimmelmann, Udenrigsdepartementet, København
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs forwards a Commander’s cross of the Order of t...
Christina Alexandra Egypta Bonaparte
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bonaparte writes about a journey she and her husband, Lord Dudley Stuart, have taken in which the...
Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Schiller Association commissions a monument to the poet Friedrich Schiller. The Association w...
Elisa Paulsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elisa Thorvaldsen is pleased that she has received news about Thorvaldsen’s journey to Muni...
Fritz Paulsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Paulsen declares his love of Elisa to Thorvaldsen. He has almost recovered from his jaundice and ...
Dorota Barbara Czartoryska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czartoryska asks Thorvaldsen to let her know if the enclosed cameo is lifelike. If he thinks that...
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commission has learned that Thorvaldsen had completed marble versions of Baptismal Angel, cf....
Ignazio Francia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Francia is delighted to hear that his son Alessandro has won first prize in sculpture at the Acca...
Dorota Barbara Czartoryska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czartoryska asks Thorvaldsen to take the opportunity to write to Zofia Potocka while she is in Vi...
Dorota Barbara Czartoryska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czartoryska requests an answer from Thorvaldsen to Zofia Potocka and asks him to do what needs to...
Teresa Lubomirska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Teresa Lubomirska tells Thorvaldsen that Zofia Potocka has written to her several times to ask Th...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A follow-up to the letter of 21.8.1832, in which the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palac...
Dorota Barbara Czartoryska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czartoryska encloses a note from Zofia Potocka and emphasizes that the latter is very pleased wit...
Anselmo Ronchetti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ronchetti takes advantage of Marco Viani’s departure from Milan to send a greeting to Thorv...
Dorota Barbara Czartoryska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czartoryska encloses a letter from Zofia Potocka and asks Thorvaldsen to write to her soon and te...
Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The members of the Association are grateful for the permission to publish the news that Thorvalds...
Helena Ponińska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ponińska reminds Thorvaldsen to send her a copy of the contract for the monument to her two child...
Dorota Barbara Czartoryska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of Alfred Potocki and Zofia Potocka, Czartoryska wants to know which month Thorvaldsen ...
Ranieri Bartolini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bartolini has recommended Thorvaldsen as honorary member of the Accademia Aretina di Scienze, Let...
Marie Lehmann, Bolette Puggaard, Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Puggaard family have arrived in Naples, where they have beautiful lodgings with a view of Ves...
Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard hopes that Thorvaldsen will manage to visit him and his family before their impending de...
Dorota Barbara Czartoryska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czartoryska writes about the transport of the funerary monument to Artur Potocki. She wants infor...
Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard is worried about Thorvaldsen’s health as he has heard about the outbreak of cholera in R...
Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard is impatient for news from Thorvaldsen. He reminds him to send the marble relief The Gra...
Marie Lehmann, Bolette Puggaard, Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans Puggaard has heard that the relief The Graces Listening to Cupid’s Song, A601, is finished a...
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Quatremère de Quincy
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A general invitation to foreign members and correspondents associated with the Académie Royale de...
Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard writes that they have put the roof tree on Thorvaldsens Museum. He and a few others have...
J.S. Møsting, Ordenskapitlet, København
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The College of Arms requests the return of Thorvaldsen’s Order of the Dannebrog.
Marie Lehmann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Marie Puggaard is impatient for news from Thorvaldsen and hopes that he will remain in Rome until...
Christine Stampe
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stampe is much agitated and writes that she misses Thorvaldsen so much that she feels ill and urg...
J.S. Møsting, Ordenskapitlet, København
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The College of Arms urges Thorvaldsen to send his device and a drawing of his coat of arms.
Angelo Bezzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bezzi is in financial difficulties and asks Thorvaldsen to give him his statuette Dice Player, G2...