• Bertel Thorvaldsen

  1770-1844

Thomson Henry Bonar

• Production Date

  1817 - 1819

• Type of Work / Object

  Sculpture > Bust > Portrait Bust

• Location

  • Denmark > Copenhagen > Thorvaldsens Museum > Main Floor > Room 11

• Inventory Number

  A893

• Catalogue Number

  A893

• Catalogue Level / Collection

  Thorvaldsen's Art > Thorvaldsen's Sculptures (A)

Explanation

• The boy was born about 1810 as the son of an English colonel, but died already in 1817. So Thorvaldsen modelled the bust of the little boy on the basis of a death mask.

Motif / Theme

• Human > Child > Boy > Thomson Henry Bonar

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