Christine Stampe, ''née'' Dalgas (20 April 1797 – 5 May 1868), was a Danish noblewoman known as one of the chief benefactors of the Danish/Icelandic sculptor

Bertel Thorvaldsen Bertel Thorvaldsen (; 19 November 1770 – 24 March 1844) was a Danes, Danish and Icelanders, Icelandic Sculpture, sculptor medallist, medalist of international fame, who spent most of his life (1797–1838) in Italy. Thorvaldsen was born in ...

Biography

Christine Marguerite Salome Dalgas married Baron Henrik Stampe (b. 1795). They had two sons, and her granddaughter

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became a

women's rights Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, ...

activist. After their marriage, the Stampes initially lived at

Christinelund Christinelund, originally a farm under Nysø Manor, is located a few kilometres east of central Præstø, on the island of Zealand's Jungshoved peninsula, in Vordingborg Municipality in southeastern Denmark. It takes its name from the salonist Ch ...

, a farm belonging to

Nysø Manor Nysø Manor, located near Præstø in the southeast of the Danish island of Sealand, was built in 1673 for Jens Lauridsen, a local functionary. It now houses the Thorvaldsen Collection, a group of works by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, w ...

on the island of

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. Christinelund, which Henrik named for his wife, is now on the Danish registry of protected buildings. A few years later, they moved into the main house on Nysø Manor, where they hosted many notable Danish artists and writers, including the writer

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and the sculptor

. Christine became a close friend of Thorvaldsen, who resided at Nysø for most of the last six years of his life. She supported his work and helped to collect the funds to build the

Thorvaldsen Museum The Thorvaldsen Museum is a single-artist museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, dedicated to the art of Danish Neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), who lived and worked in Rome for most of his life (1796–1838). The museum is locat ...

in Copenhagen. Her memoir about Thorvaldsen, ''Baroness Stampe's Memories of Thorvaldsen'', was published in 1912 and is credited with reviving interest in his work. Her 1827 portrait by C. A. Jensen is in the collection of the Thorvaldsen Museum.

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