Mathieu Kessels
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Mathieu Kessels was a Dutch Neoclassical sculptor who mainly worked in Rome.
Mathieu Kessels, about 40 years old, by unknown painter
Diskobolos preparing to throw, Chatsworth House
Deluge scene, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Tomb of the countess of Celles, Church of San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi, Rome
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Bertel Thorvaldsen was a Danish-Icelandic sculptor and medalist of international fame, who spent most of his life in Italy. Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen into a working-class Danish/Icelandic fam
Mathieu Kessels
…in Paris, where his work was exhibited at the Salon of 1819. Being determined to go to Rome, he was accepted as an apprentice of the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, probably in 1818. In a competition for young artists, organized by Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova, Kessels in 1819 won the highest award with his…
Portrait by Carl Joseph Begas, c. 1820
Self-portrait by Thorvaldsen while he was a student at the Royal Academy of Arts
Jason with the Golden Fleece, Thorvaldsen's first masterpiece
A portrait of Thorvaldsen, by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg