Thorvaldsen's Works, Payment
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Joh. Hein. Wulffen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Wulffen forwards a letter from Doctor Scheel to Thorvaldsen and explains that Scheel has told him...
Joh. Hein. Wulffen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Wulffen informs Thorvaldsen that he can draw 100 scudi on the banker Torlonia.
Tidligst 19. og senest 23.3.1803
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thomas Hope
Transcript of Thomas Hope’s copy of his contract with Thorvaldsen regarding Jason with the Golden...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart has arrived in Naples and invites Thorvaldsen to visit him. He sends travelling expenses...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart and his sister Charlotte Schimmelmann for the efforts they are making...
Conrad Rantzau
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rantzau tells Thorvaldsen that he has sent a bill of exchange for 300 piastres to Rome through Zo...
Irina Vorontsova
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Countess Vorontsova has ordered the banker Torlonia to pay Thorvaldsen 550 ecus for his works, an...
Patrick Moir
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Moir informs Thorvaldsen on behalf of Thomas Hope that the fourth and last payment for Jason with...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Conrad Rantzau
Thorvaldsen tells Conrad Rantzau how work on his commissions is progressing. The portrait bust, c...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen suggests subjects from Greek mythology for the reliefs for the Christiansborg Palace ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Draft for letter: Thorvaldsen suggests motifs from Greek mythology for the reliefs for the Christ...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen suggests that the statues of Solon and Lycurgus for the Copenhagen city hall and cour...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The building commission will forward an advance payment at 1000 scuid to Thorvaldsen. Hansen sugg...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace informs Thorvaldsen that he will receive an adv...
Det kongelige bankkontor, Altona
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The bank informs Thorvaldsen that 1,000 scudi will be transferred to him through J.C. Ulrich at L...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
J.L. Thrane
A reminder to Thrane to pay for his marble bust, Dep.36.
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 Thorvaldsen two bills of exchange for a total of 1000 scudi. He asks Thorvaldse...
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...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen acknowledges receipt of the advance payment for the works for Christiansborg Palace a...
Tidligst september 1807, senest august 1810
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Conrad Rantzau
Thorvaldsen tells Conrad Rantzau that his bust, cf. A211, is ready to be shipped, and that the re...
Charlotte Schimmelmann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schimmelmann is happy that the baptismal font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4 is finished. Sh...
Irina Vorontsova
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Countess Vorontsova has written to Thorvaldsen several times without receiving an answer, so she ...
Antagelig omkring oktober 1810
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Pierre de Balck
Thorvaldsen informs de Balck that the commissioned works, a bas-relief representing Hector with P...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans West
Thorvaldsen writes a receipt for payment of a self-portrait bust commissioned by Hans West, Berte...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans West
Thorvaldsen writes a receipt for payment of a self-portrait bust commissioned by Hans West, Berte...
Wilhelm Friedrich Gmelin
Bertel Thorvaldsen
List of Theodor von der Ropp’s commission.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Theodor von der Ropp
Thorvaldsen thanks Ropp for the payment of his works. Regarding Jupiter Otricoli, he thinks that ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schelling thanks Thorvaldsen for accepting the commision for Monument to Auguste Böhmer, A700-A70...
Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Osterman-Tolstaja describes a monument that she wants to erect to her beloved brother, and that s...
Georg Wilhelm Wilding
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The princely couple have arrived safely in Naples, but their continued journey to Sicily has been...
Georg Wilhelm Wilding
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Prince of Butera has asked for 100 sequins to be paid to Thorvaldsen and hopes that they have...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon asks Thorvaldsen to complete and send three commissioned marble reliefs as soon as possi...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon writes that he, Alexander Baillie, and his brother Hans Carl Knudtzon had a pleasant jou...
Mary Bentinck
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bentinck asks Thorvaldsen to pack and deliver the marble portrait busts of Edward Pellew and Will...
Catharina di Branciforte
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Princess regrets that she has not heard from Thorvaldsen since her departure from Rome. She a...
Theodor von der Ropp
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ropp thanks Thorvaldsen after having received Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, Venus with the Appl...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Sommariva authorizes his banker to pay Thorvaldsen a total of 14,000 scudi in instalments of the ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
List of Sommariva’s payments to Thorvaldsen for the marble version of Alexander the Great’s Entr...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Francesco Barberini
Thorvaldsen acknowledges receipt of 42 scudi, through Barberini, as part payment for Monument to ...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi has apparently received a letter from Thorvaldsen which has crossed his own letter to the...
Atanazy Raczyński
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Raczyński sends part of the payment for Ganymede Offering the Cup, cf. A854, expressing his hope ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Atanazy Raczyński
Thorvaldsen acknowledges receipt of 250 scudi as part payment for Ganymede Offering the Cup, cf. ...
Atanazy Raczyński
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Raczyński thanks Thorvaldsen for the drawing of Ganymede and hopes to receive the statue soon, cf...
Thomas Hope
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thomas Hope urges Thorvaldsen to finish and deliver Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, commissio...
Narcyz Makowiecki
Pierre Jullien
Makowiecki asks the banker Jullien to pay Thorvaldsen 50 ecus after the bust of Józef Poniatowski...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller writes that the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, has been completed and ...
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
François Arland
Receipt for a contribution to the subscription for the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accounts of payments concerning the following works by Thorvaldsen: A119, A893, A312, A720, A811,...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller reports that both models of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, have be...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted writes that he has been busy showing the newly arrived Royal Couple from Denmark around...
Nicolai Holten, Adam Wilhelm Moltke
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Moltke writes that 4000 species have been collected for carving marble versions of the two bas-re...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen firmly declines the proposal of the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace tha...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen’s copy of the letter dated 25.5.1820, see the comments there.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Thorvaldsen, who gets the idea of enlarging his professorial residence at the Academy of F...
Pietro Tenerani
Atanazy Raczyński
On Thorvaldsen’s behalf, Tenerani acknowledges receipt of the payment for Ganymede Offering the ...
Lega Zambelli
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On Byron’s behalf, Zambelli thanks Thorvaldsen for having finished the bust and asks him to send ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tekla Potocka
Thorvaldsen thanks Tekla Potocka for her two letters and informs her that the statue of her husba...
Edward Czarnecki
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czarnecki reminds Thorvaldsen that he signed a contract 30.9.1820 for a statue of Copernicus, cf....
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Luigi Sommariva
Thorvaldsen responds to Sommariva’s letter of complaint regarding his father Giovanni Battista So...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Luigi Sommariva
Thorvaldsen explains that G.B. Sommariva wanted to be portrayed at full length together with Thor...
Louise Salvage de Faverolles
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Copied excerpt of a letter from Salvage de Faverolles to one of Thorvaldsen’s aquaintances, who i...
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In consequence of a royal ordinance, Thorvaldsen is asked by the Building Commission for the Chur...
Aleksander Ivanovitj Osterman-Tolstoj
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Osterman-Tolstoj has commissioned a bust of Zar Alexander 1., cf. A715 or A46, which Thorvaldsen ...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Michael Shaw Stewart
Thorvaldsen’s receipt for _Cupid with his Bow_in marble, cf. A819.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Humboldt writes that his wife, Caroline, died in March. She wanted to be buried in the garden of ...
Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bunsen sends a cheque for an outstanding amount from Wilhelm von Humbold, asking Thorvaldsen to s...
Thomas Hope
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hope gratefully acknowledges receipt of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, the portrait busts of...
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hobhouse has read Thorvaldsen’s letter to the subcommittee and is now able to send the payment of...
Luigi Chiaveri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chiaveri has received a letter from Hobhouse regarding the monument to Lord Byron, and he has the...
Alexander Murray
Bertel Thorvaldsen
W.H. Gibbs writes that Murray has been to see Thorvaldsen, but he was not there. The payment for ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Narcyz Makowiecki
Receipt for 50 of the 100 scudi which the bust of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A249, costs.
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...
Dorota Barbara Czartoryska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czartoryska encloses a note from Zofia Potocka and emphasizes that the latter is very pleased wit...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen is in bed with a severe cold. The last five pieces of the Alexander Frieze are now re...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
At Thorvaldsen’s request, the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace and the Univers...
Zofia Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Zofia Potocka thanks Thorvaldsen for his letter informing her that the monument is ready to be se...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Goethe-kommissionen
The answer to the committee’s most recent letter has been delayed because Thorvaldsen wanted to b...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Committee is pleased to accept Thorvaldsen’s proposal to execute the models for the Goethe mo...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen asks for 500 species [1,000 rix-dollars] as partial payment for the works that he is ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Goethe-kommissionen
Thorvaldsen regrets that he has had to postpone his departure to Rome – and thus to Frankfurt – o...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Helena Ponińska
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Helena Ponińska
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Gottfried Rosenberg
Just Mathias Thiele
Rosenberg sends Thiele 1,000 rix-dollars to Thorvaldsen’s estate as final payment to C.F. Holbech...
Gottfried Rosenberg
Just Mathias Thiele
Rosenberg reminds Thiele of the missing payment to the sculptor C.F. Holbech in Rome. Earlier in ...