Exhibited: The Nivaagaard Collection, “Venskabsportrætter fra Rom”, 2016, Cat. No. 18, mentioned p. 36, ill. p. 36.

Provenance: Circolo Scandinavo / Skandinavisk Forening i Rom (Inv. No. AI 32).

The sculptor and medalist Harald Conradsen was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1832 and won 'Den Store Guldmedalje' (The Large Goldmedal) in 1845 followed by the 3-year travel scholarship and he travelled in the years 1846 to 1850 to Rome, Naples, Paris and London.

Harald Conradsen was known as a highly valued friend among fellow artists in Rome, and it is very well described in the exhibition catalogue “Venskabsportrætter fra Rom” (in Danish):

“”...24 September, I left Naples to get closer to my home - said goodbye to Frölich and Winstrup.“ The quote comes from Harald Conradsen's extensive travel journal 1847–49. His travel journals and numerous letters testify that he was a well-liked and modest friend - and that he looked forward to coming home to his girlfriend Regina. Thorald Læssøeß and L. A. Winstrup seem to have been his steady companions - and not least Jens Adolph Jerichau, about whom Wilhelm Bissen stated: ”Who like Jerichau had a Conradsen!“ Jerichau mentions the friendship relations in a letter to his wife and painter Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann: ”Thorald, Harald and I, we are the strongest friends; Harald Conradsen is a wonderful person, and I am fully convinced that a firm and heartfelt friendship will always have a place between him and me, and we could be very much for each other for the rest of our lives, we look after each other as people and as artists [...] I also live in good friendship with Frølich and Winstrup; but it is not of that importance.“ After returning from Rome, Frølich maintained an artistic connection to both Winstrup and Conradsen. [...]” (“Venskabsportrætter fra Rom”, p. 36).