Thorvaldsen as a portrait artist
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Arnold Wallick
Christian 8.
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Herman Schubart
C.F.F. Stanley
Schubart thanks Stanley for his letter and asks him to tell Thorvaldsen that he will soon receive...
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...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Pietro Benvenuti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Benvenuti recommends the painter Martelli and the writer Janer, who is also bringing letters to T...
Mary Ann Montagu
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Paolo Prossalendi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Prossalendi forwards a commission for a monument to the British governor-general Thomas Maitland,...
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...
Thomson Bonar
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bonar sends a death mask of his son, Thomson Henry Bonar, and asks Thorvaldsen to execute a portr...
Thomson Bonar
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bonar has received Thorvaldsen’s letter, and now he wants to know when his son’s bust and the rel...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Humboldt has just celebrated her son-in-law August von Hedemann’s birthday with about twenty gues...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Humboldt is annoyed that Thorvaldsen only started modelling a new bust of her just before her dep...
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...
Rud Bay
Gottlieb Schønheyder
Rud Bay describes his frequent visits to Thorvaldsen’s studio and his fascination when watching h...
Clemens Metternich
Eleonore von Kaunitz
Thorvaldsen has modelled Metternich’s bust, cf. A234. The artist will pass through Vienna before ...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Luigi Sommariva
Sommariva writes that Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie are going to present him with m...
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...
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 ...
Peder Horrebow Haste, J.C. Riise
Omnes
Haste sends additions and corrections to Nicolay Fürst’s biography of Thorvaldsen. Haste writes a...
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Caroline von Humboldt
Thing have become quiet at Schloss Tegel: The hall has been furnished, and Wilhelm is making the ...
Johann Leeb
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Leeb thanks Thorvaldsen for his advice and his helpfulness. He is pleased to have settled in Muni...
Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Omnes
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Edward Divett den yngre
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
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...
Jan Radziwonski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dr. Jan Radziwonski forwards a letter from Zofia Potocka and reminds Thorvaldsen that Józefina Ma...
Zofia Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Potocka sends Thorvaldsen a portrait of her mother-in-law, Julia Potocka, to be used as a model f...
Friederike Brun
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brun is eager to have the crates with Thorvaldsen’s marble works opened. Hermann Ernst Freund is ...
J.C. Donnellan
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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