Thorvaldsen's Collection of Paintings
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See also: Gifts from Thorvaldsen, Artworks · Genre Scenes · Purchase of Paintings · Thorvaldsen as an Art Collector · Thorvaldsen's Cast Collection · Thorvaldsen's Book Collection · Thorvaldsen's Collection of Gems · Thorvaldsen's Collection of Graphic Arts · Thorvaldsen's Collection of Coins · Thorvaldsen's Collection of Drawings · Thorvaldsen's Collection of Vases · Thorvaldsen's Egyptian Collection
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Wilhelm Schadow is working on several paintings, among them The Road to Calvary, B156. Thorvaldse...
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dahl asks Thorvaldsen to find acquaintances and work for Götzloff, who is coming to Rome to study...
Franz Ludwig Catel
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Catel acknowledges receipt of payment for a painting commissioned by Thorvaldsen, possibly Night ...
J.L. Lund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
J.L. Lund is going to send one of his paintings to Thorvaldsen. He encloses a letter from Øllegaa...
J.L. Lund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The letter is a repetition of the letter dated 21.7.1822, which Thorvaldsen has not answered. Lun...
Thomas Wyse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Giovanni Battista Bassi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The bearer of the letter also brings Thorvaldsen a painting. According to Thorvaldsen’s instructi...
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. ...
Børge Thorlacius
Johan Gunder Adler
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Giovanni Battista Bassi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bassi acknowledges receipt of payment for the two paintings, Forest Track, B62, and Ruins at Foru...
Andrea Pozzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Pozzi asks if he may borrow a painting which Thorvaldsen owns, Praying Virgin, B16, as the bearer...
Friedrich Thøming
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thøming asks permission to borrow the paintings that Thorvaldsen has bought from him so that he m...
Giovanni Battista Bassi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bassi wants to borrow the painting Forest Track, B62, from Thorvaldsen, who has bought it for his...
Louise von Panhuys
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Panhuys wants to revive Thorvaldsen’s memory of her. She asks for news from Rome and offers to he...
Anna von Brasch
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Friedrich Thøming
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thøming recommends the works of three painters from Munich as potential collector’s objects.
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August Ferdinand Hopfgarten
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hopfgarten’s receipt for the painting The Miracle of St. Elizabeth, B122.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
An accident with the marble for the portrait statue of Caroline Amalie makes it impossible for Th...
August Riedel
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Riedel’s receipt for the painting A Neapolitan Fisherman and his Family, B150.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik is looking forward to seeing Thorvaldsen again in Copenhagen in the autum...
Michelangelo Pacetti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Pacetti acknowledges receipt of payment for two gilt-framed paintings.
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A list of the artworks by Thorvaldsen that have come to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea.
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A list of the works by Thorvaldsen that have come to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea.
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen visits Thorvaldsen for the first time in Rome. He seeks him in vain in his workshop but ...
Thomas Fearnley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Fearnley’s receipt for the paintings Elsenore towards Kronborg, Winter, B194, and Elsenore toward...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Just Mathias Thiele
Thorvaldsen acknowledges receipt of the report on the arrival of his works of art in Copenhagen w...
Jørgen Sonne
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sonne acknowledges receipt of payment for a painting, either A Battlefield on the Morning after a...
Ditlev Martens
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Martens’ receipt for a loan of 100 scudi from Thorvaldsen with his painting Michelangelo’s House ...
J.L. Jensen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jensen asks Thorvaldsen for 50 scudi for his purchase of three of Jensen’s paintings, Flowers in ...
J.L. Jensen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jensen’s advance receipt for payment for the paintings Flowers in a vase on a marble table-top, B...
Philipp von Foltz
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Foltz acknowledges that Thorvaldsen has received, probably bought, the painting Sleeping Italian ...
Ditlev Martens
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Martens’ receipt for a loan of 100 scudi from Thorvaldsen with the painting Saint Peter’s from th...
Friedrich Stammann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Friedrich Stammann recommends the Austrian Count Harrach to Thorvaldsen and asks Thorvaldsen to i...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Michelangelo Pacetti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Pacetti regrets that illness has prevented him from returning the painting he has borrowed from T...
Andreas Ludvig Koop
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Koop acknowledges receipt of payment for two paintings, a copy after August Riede’s painting Girl...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Thorvaldsen regrets that he cannot travel to Denmark after all. He has been robbed during the pac...
C.W. Eckersberg
Jonas Collin
Eckersberg sends a sketch of the painting Thorvaldsen’ Arrival in the Copenhagen Roadstead, Septe...
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Ferdinand Richardt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Richardt’s receipt for Thorvaldsen’s payment for a painting, either A Studio at the Academy of Fi...
Before 14.10.1839, Presumably April 1839
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
List of the paintings Thorvaldsen bought at the Charlottenborg exhibition in 1839.
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Dankvart Dreyer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dreyer’s receipt for the painting View of the coast near Aarhus, B208.
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Tidligst 25.4. og senest 9.9.1839
C.W. Eckersberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Eckersberg tells Thorvaldsen that he may buy the painting Portrait of Frederik VI, B216, for 40 r...
C.W. Eckersberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Eckersberg’s receipt for the painting Portrait of Frederik VI, B216.
J.P. Møller
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of the landscape painter A.W. Boesen, Møller acknowledges receipt of payment for a pain...
Peter Christian Damborg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Fragment of a bill from a frame-maker to Thorvaldsen on the backside of one of the sculptor’...
Presumably 1840, before March 1841
Anton Melbye
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Melbye’s receipt for the painting En hollandsk kuf og et linieskib i mærssejlskuling, B264.
C.W. Eckersberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Eckersberg’s receipt for the painting Thorvaldsen’s arrival in the Copenhagen roadste...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 58th part of 60 in all.
Johann Mohr
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mohr acknowledges receipt of payment for two paintings, Winter Landscape from Bordesholm, B274, a...
Anders Christian Lunde
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lunde’s receipt for the painting View of Frederiksberg Palace from the Vicinity of Ladegaardsvej,...
Sally Henriques
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Henriques acknowledges receipt of payment for the painting Study of a Sailor, B407.
Johanne Luise Heiberg
Omnes
Heiberg discusses Thorvaldsen’s mental faculties and opposes the widespread idea that he is a naï...
Georg Emil Libert
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Libert acknowledges receipt of payment for the painting View of the Sound from Langelinie near Co...
Anton Melbye
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Melby’s receipt for the painting A calm morning at sea, which is still in Thorvaldsen’...
Ditlev Blunck
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Blunck declares that the painting Madonna del Granduca, B35, shall remain in Thorvaldsen’s collec...
Gottlieb Collin
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Collin’s receipt for the payment for Albert Küchler’s painting Roman peasants buying a hat for th...
Heinrich Buntzen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Peter Christian Damborg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bill and receipt for the framing of the paintings Roman peasants buying a hat for their little so...
Just Mathias Thiele
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thiele writes about H.W. Bissen’s appointment as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenha...
Caroline Buntzen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Buntzen’s receipt for her husband, Heinrich Buntzen’s painting Oak trees by a pool, 1...
Carl Richardt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Richardt asks Thorvaldsen to buy one of his paintings so that he can get money to go to Norway, w...
Constantin Hansen
Ludvig Müller
Hansen writes that Thorvaldsen has bought a painting by Adam Müller even though it is still unfin...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Information about the expected arrival at Leghorn of the frigate Thetis and about the sepulchral ...
After 1.2.1842, before 15.2.1842
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Sixth draft of the letter dated 15.2.1842. The draft is considerably longer than the final letter.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 40th part of 60 in all.
Heinrich Buntzen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Buntzen acknowledges receipt of an advance on Thorvaldsen’s commission for the painting Danish L...
Hans Harder
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The landscape painter Harder is pleased that Thorvaldsen has returned to Denmark and asks him to ...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 50th part of 60 in all.
L.C. Panum
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Panum offers Thorvaldsen two paintings by Jens Juel, View of the Little Belt from Hindsgavl, Fune...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Wishes to see Thorvaldsen’s collection of paintings at Charlottenborg in connection with th...
F.C. Sibbern
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sibbern offers C.D. Gebauer’s painting Winter landskape at Brabrand Church, 1831 to Thorval...
Johan Christian Theodor Bayer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bayer asks Thorvaldsen to buy one of his drawings for a sum, which the sculptor finds suitable. H...
Hermann Kauffmann I
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kauffmann is pleased that Thorvaldsen wants to buy the painting Tyrolian Roadside Inn, B123, for ...
Mozart Waagepetersen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Waagepetersen acknowledges receipt of payment for Heinrich Kauffmann’s painting Tyrolean Ro...
F.C. Sibbern
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sibbern has hung C.D. Gebauer’s painting Winter Landscape with Brabrand Church, 1831, in Thorvald...
Peter Panum
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Panum’s receipt for 100 rix-dollars for two landscapes by Jens Juel.
Christine Stampe
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The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 54th part of 60 in all.
J.P. Møller
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Møller acknowledges receipt of payment for the paintings The Town of Svendborg, Funen, B278, and ...
Carl Dahl
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Carl Dahl wants the remaining payment for the painting The frigate Thetis and the corvette Flora ...
Carl Dahl
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Dahl asks to be paid the balance due for the painting The frigate Thetis and the corvette Flora ...
Heinrich Buntzen
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Buntzen asks for the remaining payment for the painting Danish Landscape, B204, which Thorvaldsen...
Jonas Collin
H.N. Clausen, A.C. Kierulff, J.F. Schouw
Collin reports the painters Carl Dahl’s and Heinrich Buntzen’s requests for the remaining payment...
Fritz Thomsen
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Thomsen requests permission to complete and receive payment for a painting of a battle scene whic...
Jonas Collin
J.F. Schouw
Collin asks Schouw to confirm that it is acceptable to pay the marine painter Carl Dahl the balan...
Christine Stampe
Jonas Collin
Stampe has received a letter from the German painter General C.W. von Heideck, in which he asks a...
Gustav Edvard Brock
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Brock sends the list of the objects in Thorvaldsen’s estate that Christine Stampe lays clai...
Jonas Collin
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
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Peter von Cornelius
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
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Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
N.L. Høyen
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Jonas Collin
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
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N.L. Høyen
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
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Michael Lange
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
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Jonas Collin
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
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Michael Lange
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
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Jonas Collin
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
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Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
N.L. Høyen
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N.L. Høyen
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
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Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
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N.L. Høyen
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
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