In November 1894 a photographer by the name of Frederik Riise offered the governing body of Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen the chance to buy Aymard-Charles-Thodore Neubourgs portrait daguerreotype of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. When Riise approached the museum, the daguerreotype was in the possession of the photographer to the Swedish royal court, Johannes Jaeger, and Riise was acting o...