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Thorvaldsen's Collection of Paintings

See Related Article on this subject: Thorvaldsen's Collection of Paintings − a Collection with a Significant Lack

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

6.11.1818

Caroline von Humboldt

Christian Daniel Rauch

Wilhelm Schadow is working on several paintings, among them The Road to Calvary, B156. Thorvaldse...

Efter 1820

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NN

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28.8.1821

J.C. Dahl

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Dahl asks Thorvaldsen to find acquaintances and work for Götzloff, who is coming to Rome to study...

21.12.1821

Franz Ludwig Catel

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Catel acknowledges receipt of payment for a painting commissioned by Thorvaldsen, possibly Night ...

21.7.1822

J.L. Lund

Bertel Thorvaldsen

J.L. Lund is going to send one of his paintings to Thorvaldsen. He encloses a letter from Øllegaa...

28.11.1822

J.L. Lund

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The letter is a repetition of the letter dated 21.7.1822, which Thorvaldsen has not answered. Lun...

Antagelig omkring 1824

Thomas Wyse

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

24.8.1824

Giovanni Battista Bassi

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The bearer of the letter also brings Thorvaldsen a painting. According to Thorvaldsen’s instructi...

20.3.1825

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Simon Moritz von Bethmann

Thorvaldsen recommends the painter Moritz Oppenheim warmly to Simon von Bethmann and takes the op...

20.6.1825

Moritz Oppenheim

Bertel Thorvaldsen, Emil Wolff

Oppenheim has returned safely from a journey to Northern Italy and the southern part of Germany. ...

5.1.1827

Børge Thorlacius

Johan Gunder Adler

The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.

19.6.1827

Giovanni Battista Bassi

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bassi acknowledges receipt of payment for the two paintings, Forest Track, B62, and Ruins at Foru...

22.1.1828

Andrea Pozzi

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Pozzi asks if he may borrow a painting which Thorvaldsen owns, Praying Virgin, B16, as the bearer...

Probably Spring 1828

Friedrich Thøming

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Thøming asks permission to borrow the paintings that Thorvaldsen has bought from him so that he m...

17.8.1828

Giovanni Battista Bassi

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bassi wants to borrow the painting Forest Track, B62, from Thorvaldsen, who has bought it for his...

19.9.1829

Louise von Panhuys

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Panhuys wants to revive Thorvaldsen’s memory of her. She asks for news from Rome and offers to he...

Antagelig 18.10.1829

Anna von Brasch

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

1830s

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

Efter 1830

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

Before 22.1.1830

Friedrich Thøming

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Thøming recommends the works of three painters from Munich as potential collector’s objects.

17.5.1830

Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten

Omnes

The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.

8.8.1830

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Omnes

The commentary for this testament is not available at the moment.

3.1.1833

August Ferdinand Hopfgarten

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Hopfgarten’s receipt for the painting The Miracle of St. Elizabeth, B122.

6.4.1833

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Christian 8.

An accident with the marble for the portrait statue of Caroline Amalie makes it impossible for Th...

19.4.1833

August Riedel

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Riedel’s receipt for the painting A Neapolitan Fisherman and his Family, B150.

27.4.1833

Christian 8.

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Christian (8.) Frederik is looking forward to seeing Thorvaldsen again in Copenhagen in the autum...

26.9.1833

Michelangelo Pacetti

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Pacetti acknowledges receipt of payment for two gilt-framed paintings.

27.9.1833

Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten

Omnes

A list of the artworks by Thorvaldsen that have come to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea.

1.10.1833

Redaktørerne ved Dagen

Omnes

A list of the works by Thorvaldsen that have come to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea.

19.10.1833

H.C. Andersen

H.C. Andersen

Andersen visits Thorvaldsen for the first time in Rome. He seeks him in vain in his workshop but ...

24.11.1833

Thomas Fearnley

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Fearnley’s receipt for the paintings Elsenore towards Kronborg, Winter, B194, and Elsenore toward...

21.12.1833

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Just Mathias Thiele

Thorvaldsen acknowledges receipt of the report on the arrival of his works of art in Copenhagen w...

Presumably 1834-1838

Jørgen Sonne

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sonne acknowledges receipt of payment for a painting, either A Battlefield on the Morning after a...

28.1.1834

Ditlev Martens

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Martens’ receipt for a loan of 100 scudi from Thorvaldsen with his painting Michelangelo’s House ...

14.3.1834

NN

Omnes

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26.5.1834

J.L. Jensen

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Jensen asks Thorvaldsen for 50 scudi for his purchase of three of Jensen’s paintings, Flowers in ...

26.5.1834

J.L. Jensen

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Jensen’s advance receipt for payment for the paintings Flowers in a vase on a marble table-top, B...

19.3.1837

Philipp von Foltz

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Foltz acknowledges that Thorvaldsen has received, probably bought, the painting Sleeping Italian ...

2.7.1837

Ditlev Martens

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Martens’ receipt for a loan of 100 scudi from Thorvaldsen with the painting Saint Peter’s from th...

16.12.1837

Friedrich Stammann

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Friedrich Stammann recommends the Austrian Count Harrach to Thorvaldsen and asks Thorvaldsen to i...

Antagelig 1838

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

Antagelig omkring 1838

NN

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

5.2.1838

Michelangelo Pacetti

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Pacetti regrets that illness has prevented him from returning the painting he has borrowed from T...

3.5.1838

Andreas Ludvig Koop

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Koop acknowledges receipt of payment for two paintings, a copy after August Riede’s painting Girl...

Ca. 1.7.1838

Bertel Thorvaldsen

NN

Thorvaldsen regrets that he cannot travel to Denmark after all. He has been robbed during the pac...

9.10.1838

C.W. Eckersberg

Jonas Collin

Eckersberg sends a sketch of the painting Thorvaldsen’ Arrival in the Copenhagen Roadstead, Septe...

27.10.1838

Redaktørerne ved Dansk Kunstblad

Omnes

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3.11.1838

Redaktørerne ved Dansk Kunstblad

Omnes

The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.

17.11.1838

Redaktørerne ved Dansk Kunstblad

Omnes

The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.

Presumably 1839 or 1840

Ferdinand Richardt

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Richardt’s receipt for Thorvaldsen’s payment for a painting, either A Studio at the Academy of Fi...

1839 [1837]

A.F. Elmquist

Omnes

The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.

Before 14.10.1839, Presumably April 1839

NN

Bertel Thorvaldsen

List of the paintings Thorvaldsen bought at the Charlottenborg exhibition in 1839.

5.4.1839

Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten

Omnes

The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.

21.4.1839

Dankvart Dreyer

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Dreyer’s receipt for the painting View of the coast near Aarhus, B208.

3.5.1839

Redaktørerne ved Berlingske Tidende

Omnes

The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.

3.5.1839

Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten

Omnes

The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.

26.5.1839

Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten

Omnes

The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.

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...

9.9.1839

C.W. Eckersberg

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Eckersberg’s receipt for the painting Portrait of Frederik VI, B216.

14.10.1839

J.P. Møller

Bertel Thorvaldsen

On behalf of the landscape painter A.W. Boesen, Møller acknowledges receipt of payment for a pain...

After 18.11.1839

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.

1840

Alfred Reumont

Omnes

The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.

1840

Alfred Reumont

Omnes

The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.

25.2.1840

C.W. Eckersberg

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Eckersberg’s receipt for the painting Thorvaldsen’s arrival in the Copenhagen roadste...

March 1840 & 1820

Christine Stampe

Omnes

The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 58th part of 60 in all.

10.6.1840

Johann Mohr

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Mohr acknowledges receipt of payment for two paintings, Winter Landscape from Bordesholm, B274, a...

11.6.1840

Anders Christian Lunde

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Lunde’s receipt for the painting View of Frederiksberg Palace from the Vicinity of Ladegaardsvej,...

12.6.1840

Sally Henriques

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Henriques acknowledges receipt of payment for the painting Study of a Sailor, B407.

Not earlier than July 1840

Johanne Luise Heiberg

Omnes

Heiberg discusses Thorvaldsen’s mental faculties and opposes the widespread idea that he is a naï...

21.7.1840

Georg Emil Libert

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Libert acknowledges receipt of payment for the painting View of the Sound from Langelinie near Co...

August 1840

Anton Melbye

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Melby’s receipt for the painting A calm morning at sea, which is still in Thorvaldsen’...

8.8.1840

Ditlev Blunck

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Blunck declares that the painting Madonna del Granduca, B35, shall remain in Thorvaldsen’s collec...

14.8.1840

Gottlieb Collin

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Collin’s receipt for the payment for Albert Küchler’s painting Roman peasants buying a hat for th...

30.8.1840

Heinrich Buntzen

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

2.9.1840

Peter Christian Damborg

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bill and receipt for the framing of the paintings Roman peasants buying a hat for their little so...

28.10.1840

Just Mathias Thiele

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Thiele writes about H.W. Bissen’s appointment as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenha...

8.12.1840

Caroline Buntzen

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Buntzen’s receipt for her husband, Heinrich Buntzen’s painting Oak trees by a pool, 1...

13.5.1841

Carl Richardt

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Richardt asks Thorvaldsen to buy one of his paintings so that he can get money to go to Norway, w...

2.12.1841

Constantin Hansen

Ludvig Müller

Hansen writes that Thorvaldsen has bought a painting by Adam Müller even though it is still unfin...

23.12.1841

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.

March-April 1842

Christine Stampe

Omnes

The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 40th part of 60 in all.

30.5.1842

Heinrich Buntzen

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Buntzen acknowledges receipt of an advance on Thorvaldsen’s commission for the painting Danish L...

31.5.1842

Karl von Kolb

Bertel Thorvaldsen

List of payments from Kolb to Thorvaldsen.

30.10.1842

Hans Harder

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The landscape painter Harder is pleased that Thorvaldsen has returned to Denmark and asks him to ...

13.12.1842

Christian 8.

Christian 8.

The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.

March-April 1843

Christine Stampe

Omnes

The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 50th part of 60 in all.

14.3.1843

L.C. Panum

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Panum offers Thorvaldsen two paintings by Jens Juel, View of the Little Belt from Hindsgavl, Fune...

15.5.1843

Christian 8.

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Wishes to see Thorvaldsen’s collection of paintings at Charlottenborg in connection with th...

June 1843

F.C. Sibbern

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sibbern offers C.D. Gebauer’s painting Winter landskape at Brabrand Church, 1831 to Thorval...

6.6.1843

Johan Christian Theodor Bayer

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bayer asks Thorvaldsen to buy one of his drawings for a sum, which the sculptor finds suitable. H...

9.6.1843

Hermann Kauffmann I

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Kauffmann is pleased that Thorvaldsen wants to buy the painting Tyrolian Roadside Inn, B123, for ...

20.6.1843

Mozart Waagepetersen

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Waagepetersen acknowledges receipt of payment for Heinrich Kauffmann’s painting Tyrolean Ro...

Probably August 1843

F.C. Sibbern

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sibbern has hung C.D. Gebauer’s painting Winter Landscape with Brabrand Church, 1831, in Thorvald...

25.10.1843

Peter Panum

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Panum’s receipt for 100 rix-dollars for two landscapes by Jens Juel.

December 1843

Christine Stampe

Omnes

The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 54th part of 60 in all.

13.2.1844

J.P. Møller

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Møller acknowledges receipt of payment for the paintings The Town of Svendborg, Funen, B278, and ...

22.4.1844

Carl Dahl

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

Carl Dahl wants the remaining payment for the painting The frigate Thetis and the corvette Flora ...

Maj 1844

Carl Dahl

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

Dahl asks to be paid the balance due for the painting The frigate Thetis and the corvette Flora ...

Kort før 23.5.1844

Heinrich Buntzen

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

Buntzen asks for the remaining payment for the painting Danish Landscape, B204, which Thorvaldsen...

3.6.1844

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...

27.6.1844

Fritz Thomsen

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

Thomsen requests permission to complete and receive payment for a painting of a battle scene whic...

18.7.1844

Jonas Collin

J.F. Schouw

Collin asks Schouw to confirm that it is acceptable to pay the marine painter Carl Dahl the balan...

Februar-marts 1845

Christine Stampe

Jonas Collin

Stampe has received a letter from the German painter General C.W. von Heideck, in which he asks a...

1.4.1845

Gustav Edvard Brock

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

Brock sends the list of the objects in Thorvaldsen’s estate that Christine Stampe lays clai...

Juni-juli 1845

Jonas Collin

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

The commentary for this account is not available at the moment.

2.1.1846

Peter von Cornelius

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

26.12.1847

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

N.L. Høyen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

28.12.1847

Jonas Collin

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

1.1.1848

N.L. Høyen

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

28.1.1848

Michael Lange

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

3.2.1848

Troels Lund

Jonas Collin

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

4.2.1848

Jonas Collin

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

8.2.1848

Michael Lange

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

22.2.-1.3.1848

Jonas Collin

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

2.3.1848

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

N.L. Høyen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

11.3.1848

N.L. Høyen

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

17.3.1848

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

17.3.1848

J.F. Schouw

Jonas Collin

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

20.5.1848

H.N. Clausen

Jonas Collin

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

24.5.1848

N.L. Høyen

Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

22.9.1848

Redaktørerne ved Fædrelandet

Omnes

The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.

26.1.1856

Redaktørerne ved Flyve-Posten

Omnes

The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.