Frederik Christian Willerup (5 February 1742 - 7 May 1819) was a Danish sculptor who worked at the Royal Danish Dockyard on Holmen in Copenhagen. He lived most of his life in Denmark-Norway.
Frederik Christian Willerup (5 February 1742 - 7 May 1819) was a Danish sculptor who worked at the Royal Danish Dockyard on Holmen in Copenhagen. He lived most of his life in Denmark-Norway.
Willerup was born on 5 February 1742 in Copenhagen, the son of Andreas Willerup and Anna Cathrine Holm, He was married to Anne Dorthea Kisbye )1759-1836).
Willerup worked as the navy's sculptor at the Royal Danish Shipyard from 1776. He was responsible for creating figureheads, gallery ornamentation and other ornamental features for the ships constructed at the shipyard. [1]
He also made figureheads and ornaments for private shipowners, for instance at Larsens Plads, where a young Bertel Thorvaldsen and his father Gotskalk Thorvaldsen also worked. Thorvaldsen carved a wooden relief for a gate of a rider on horseback (now in Thorvaldsens Museum), after Willerup's drawing. Without the model's knowledge, Thorvaldsen also executed a portrait of Willerup in 1796. According to Just Matthias Thiele's Thorvaldsen biography (Vol. III, p. 50), Willerup had requested "a small work in remembrance" from his young colleague, before Thorvaldsen's departure for Rome. Thorvaldsen did not immediately seem to have complied with the request, but after his departure the bust was found in a box with the inscription: "for Willerup". [1] The portrait is not known today. [1]
Other works by Willerup include four allegorical sculptures of "The Four Winds" for the new Knippel Bridge in Copenhagen. They are now in the collection of the Museum of Copenhagen. [2]
Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen was a Danish-Icelandic sculptor and medalist of international fame, who spent most of his life (1797–1838) in Italy. Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen into a working-class Danish/Icelandic family, and was accepted to the Royal Danish Academy of Art at the age of eleven. Working part-time with his father, who was a wood carver, Thorvaldsen won many honors and medals at the academy. He was awarded a stipend to travel to Rome and continue his education.
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Events from the year 1819 in Denmark.
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HDMS Thetis was a frigate of the Royal Danish Navy, which she served from 1842 to 1864. She is best known for being one of the ships that picked up some of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen's artworks and other belongings in Rome, some forty years after another Danish naval vessel by the same name had transported him the other way. In the meantime he had achieved international fame for his Neoclassical sculptures. Thorvaldsen, who had been back in Rome since September 1841, after moving back to Copenhagen in 1838, was also supposed to return with the ship. He did however, miss its departure by one day. The Royal Danish Navy's first music corps played its first performance on board the Thetis in 1857.
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