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Bertel Thorvaldsen
(1770-1844)
Various works
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THORVALDSEN or THORWALDSEN, BERTEL (1770-1844), Danish sculptor, the son of an Icelander who had settled in Denmark and there carried on the trade of a wood-carver, was born in Copenhagen on the 8th November 1770.

While very young he learnt to assist his father; at the age of eleven he entered the Copenhagen School of Art, and soon began to show his exceptional talents. In 1792 he won the highest prize, the travelling studentship, and in 1796 he started for Italy in a Danish man-of-war. On the 8th March 1797 he arrived in Rome, where Canova was at the height of his popularity. Thorwaldsen’s first success was the model for a statue of Jason, which was highly praised by Canova, and he received the commission to execute it in marble from Thomas Hope, a wealthy English art-