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COPENHAGEN.
Chap. XI.
is attached a travelling stipendium, and the young
artist now first quitted his native country for Italy.
From early morn till twilight he worked without repose,
and when he arrived late at the osteria he contented
himself with the remains left by his fellow students.
The period of his stipendium was at an end; he
had accomplished a statue of Jason; strangers
frequented his studio, admired his work, lauded his
talent, but ordered nothing. The day of his departure
arrived; he was about to quit Italy at the very
moment he began to profit by the advantages derived
from his residence; the carriage, with the luggage
already corded, stood at the door, when his
fellow-traveller was unexpectedly compelled to defer his journey,
his passport not being en regie. On that one day’s
delay hung the fate of Thorvaldsen’s future career. The
following morning Mr. Hope, having heard of the
rising talents of the youthful Dane, visited his studio; he
at once appreciated the merits of the statue of Jason,
and ordered it to be executed in marble, for the sum
of 800 zechins. Thorvaldsen himself had fixed the price
at 600. Mr. Hope advanced him a considerable sum to
commence the work.
And now a new epoch commences in the life of
Thorvaldsen—orders poured in from all sides, even from his
own countrymen, who at last discovered his talent. The
Royal Commissioners for building the new Palace of
Christiansborg and the Frue Kirke became liberal in
their orders.
One invet®rate enemy, however, pursued Thorvaldsen
—the Court architect, Hansen, a German by birth. He
it was who constructed all the hideous edifices of his
time, by which the Danish capital is so fearfully
dis
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