Thorvaldsen as Mentor for Other Artists
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart has read in a newspaper that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of ...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard informs Thorvaldsen that he will receive his salary as a professor of the Royal Academ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans West
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans West
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch writes that Thorvaldsen will contribute a relief to the planned monument to Queen Luise.
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch regrets that the painter Christian Gottlieb Schick is leaving Rome as he was always ready t...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch writes that Rudolf Schadow has arrived in Berlin in a sorry state. Thorvaldsen has taken ov...
J.L. Lund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
An attempt to persuade Thorvaldsen to visit Denmark. Information about life at home and greetings...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Thorvaldsen has praised Rauch’s sepulchral monument to Queen Luise. He is not feeling well ...
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...
Edward Dodwell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dodwell recommends the English sculptor John Gibson to Thorvaldsen. Gibson is to study in Rome fo...
Giuditta Nalli
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nalli acknowledges receipt of 4 scudi from Thorvaldsen.
Lauritz Kruse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kruse encloses the prospectus in which the Danish population is invited to contribute to the acqu...
Herman Schubart
Christian 8.
Schubart assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Frederik 6.’s new...
Jørgen Koch
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen is pleased that his native country now acknowledges his achievements with a large com...
François-Joseph Navez
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Navez thanks Thorvaldsen for lending him a bust. He asks for another one or a basrelief to make d...
François-Joseph Navez
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Navez asks Thorvaldsen to lend him a pair of antique busts. He also thanks him for the loan of Ho...
Christian 8.
C.F. Hansen
Christian Frederik has considered to interrupt his grand tour of Europe temporarily in order to g...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni Edoardo De Pecis
Thorvaldsen writes to De Pecis to thank him for the portrait of Appiani made by the Milanese scul...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Describes the inauguration of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, in Lucerne, w...
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dahl asks Thorvaldsen to find acquaintances and work for Götzloff, who is coming to Rome to study...
John Gibson
William Cavendish
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Jacob Ludwig Salomo Bartholdy
Johann Martin von Wagner
Bartholdy writes about Franz Erwein von Schönborn’s commission of a statue of Bacchus from the la...
Johann Martin von Wagner
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Wagner regrets his late answer regarding the completion of the Bacchus statue left by the late Ru...
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dahl asks Thorvaldsen to find work for Carl Wagner and Ernst Oehme, who are coming to Rome. He al...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Fonden ad usus publicos
Thorvaldsen recommends the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Fonden ad usus publicos
Thorvaldsen recommends the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop.
Rudolf Emanuel Wettstein
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Wettstein asks Thorvaldsen for a recommendation of the Swiss painter Hieronimus Hess. He has hear...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rudolf Emanuel Wettstein
Thorvaldsen is pleased to recommend the artist Hieronymus Hess, whose talent, diligence and abili...
Johann Leeb
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Leeb writes that he has completed the model for his statue Sleeping Cupid and has had it cast in ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Fonden ad usus publicos
Thorvaldsen recommends the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Fonden ad usus publicos
Thorvaldsen recommends the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Thorvaldsen recommends the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop.
Accademia Fiorentina, Giovanni degli Alessandri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni degli Alessandri recommends a student, Tommaso Gasperini, to Thorvaldsen. Gasperini is c...
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.
Giovanni Battista Bassi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The bearer of the letter also brings Thorvaldsen a painting. According to Thorvaldsen’s instructi...
Tommaso Gasperini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gasperini regrets his delayed return to Rome. This is due to protracted periods of rain in Cologn...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Fonden ad usus publicos
Thorvaldsen recommends the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop.
Johann Leeb
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Leeb reports that his statue Sleeping Cupid has been completed in marble. He has been relieved to...
Johann Leeb
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Leeb fears that his report on the completion of the statue Sleeping Cupid has not been received. ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Simon Moritz von Bethmann
Thorvaldsen recommends the painter Moritz Oppenheim warmly to Simon von Bethmann and takes the op...
Moritz Oppenheim
Bertel Thorvaldsen, Emil Wolff
Oppenheim has returned safely from a journey to Northern Italy and the southern part of Germany. ...
Tommaso Gasperini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gasperini sends New Year’s greetings to Thorvaldsen, thanking him again for his kindness to him w...
Jacob Hofer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Paolo Emilio Demi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Demi asks Thorvaldsen to send a testimonial about a sculpture group which he has executed under T...
Tommaso Gazzarini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen has failed to appear at a planned meeting with Gazzarrini, who therefore asks him to ...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik wants to know which of Thorvaldsen’s works wil be sent home in the ...
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound thanks Thorvaldsen for having taken on the Scottish sculptor Alexander R...
Paolo Emilio Demi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Demi asks Thorvaldsen to recommend him if Thorvaldsen himself does not want to accept the commiss...
Johann Leeb
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Leeb thanks Thorvaldsen for his advice and his helpfulness. He is pleased to have settled in Muni...
Giovanni Battista Bassi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bassi recommends the Italian painter Pietro Paoletti to Thorvaldsen.
Ditlev Martens
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Martens has returned from Sicily and Calabria and sends a detailed account of his journey. In spi...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ditlev Martens
Thorvaldsen bears witness to Martens’ diligence and talent and warmly recommends him for fi...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Città di Torino
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen regrets that the Danish painter Andreas Ludvig Koop has not been admitted as a member...
Tommaso Gasperini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gasperini sends New Year’s greetings to Thorvaldsen, thanking him again for his kindness to him w...
Andrea Pozzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Pozzi asks if he may borrow a painting which Thorvaldsen owns, Praying Virgin, B16, as the bearer...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Maria Szymanowska
Thorvaldsen is pleased to hear that the crate with Nicolaus Copernicus and Szymanowska’s bu...
Boris Orlovsky
Bertel Thorvaldsen
An emotional Orlovsky laments parting from Thorvaldsen, whom he sees as his father, his teacher, ...
Antagelig senest primo marts 1829
Carlo Poggi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Poggi asks Thorvaldsen for work after a year of troubles has put him in a desperate situation. Ea...
Jakub Tatarkiewicz
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tatarkiewicz writes that there have been problems with the casting of Nicolaus Copernicus after t...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Adam Oehlenschläger
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Adam Oehlenschläger recommends the composer J.F. Frøhlich to Thorvaldsen. He is pleased that the ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
NN
Recommendation of the sculptor Antonio Moccia, who, uder Thorvaldsen’s direction, has execu...
Geltrude Versari
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Geltrude Versari asks Thorvaldsen to take good care of her son, Alessandro Manzoni, who is coming...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jonas Collin
Thorvaldsen asks Jonas Collin to help the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop financially.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jonas Collin
Thorvaldsen asks Jonas Collin to help the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop financially.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Frederik 6.
Thorvaldsen recommends the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop to the King and suggests that he b...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten, NN
Omnes
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Karl Viktor von Bonstetten
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bonstetten recommends the Swiss sculptor Raphael Christen to Thorvaldsen.
Efter 19.5. og antagelig før 3.7.1831
Karl Viktor von Bonstetten
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bonstetten thanks Thorvaldsen for allowing Rahael Christen to work for him in Rome, and he asks w...
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 ...
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...
Presumably not earlier than Christmas 1831
Giuseppe Mugnoz
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mugnoz promises not to inconvenience Thorvaldsen again until after Easter, but he urgently needs ...
Redaktørerne ved Dansk Litteratur-Tidende
Omnes
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Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
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Ignazio Francia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Francia is delighted to hear that his son Alessandro has won first prize in sculpture at the Acca...
Alexander Ritchie
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ritchie asks Thorvaldsen to give a visiting Scottish painter a good reception.
Adamo Tadolini, Antonio Tosti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tadolini asks Thorvaldsen to recommend him as a substitute professor at the Accademia di S. Luca ...
Ignazio Francia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Francia expresses his gratitude for Thorvaldsen’s teaching and support of his son Alessand...
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 reads aloud from Agnete and the Merman to Thorvaldsen and other artists. Thorvaldsen, wh...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has attended an evening of poetry reading at the Accademia Tiberina together with Henrik...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has visited Thorvaldsen and was comforted and encouraged by him after having told him ab...
Redaktørerne ved Wiener Zeitschrift
Omnes
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Ditlev Martens
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Martens’ receipt for a loan of 100 scudi from Thorvaldsen with his painting Michelangelo’s House ...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Thorvaldsen has been for a walk with Andersen, holding his hand.
Robert Schmidt von der Launitz
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recommendation of the American apprentice sculptor Thomas Crawford, who is coming to Rome. Launit...
John Gibson
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Gibson wonders that John Lough neither visits other sculptors’ workshops nor receives visits in h...
Benjamin Gibson
John Crouchley
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Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 11th part of 60 in all.
Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Omnes
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Ditlev Blunck
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Blunck declares that the painting Madonna del Granduca, B35, shall remain in Thorvaldsen’s collec...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Just Mathias Thiele
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 21th part of 60 in all.
Carl Richardt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Richardt asks Thorvaldsen to buy one of his paintings so that he can get money to go to Norway, w...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 29th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 31th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 32th part of 60 in all.
Ludwig von Schwanthaler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schwanthaler recommends the young sculptor Friedrich Brugger to Thorvaldsen.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 34th part of 60 in all.
Constantin Hansen
Ludvig Müller
Hansen writes that Thorvaldsen has bought a painting by Adam Müller even though it is still unfin...
John Gibson
Margaret Sandbach
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
J.V. Gertner
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gertner tells Thorvaldsen about his participation in the competition for the gold medal of the Ac...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 45th part of 60 in all.
Johan Christian Theodor Bayer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bayer asks Thorvaldsen to buy one of his drawings for a sum, which the sculptor finds suitable. H...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
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Carl Dahl
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Carl Dahl wants the remaining payment for the painting The frigate Thetis and the corvette Flora ...
Fritz Thomsen
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Thomsen requests permission to complete and receive payment for a painting of a battle scene whic...
Timothy Shay Arthur
Omnes
Description of Thorvaldsen’s visit to the sculptor Hiram Powers’ workshop in Florence...