Christian Albrecht von Benzon

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Christian Albrecht von Benzon (11 July 1816, in Copenhagen – 3 September 1849, in Paris) was a Danish painter.

Life

Early life

He was the son of the

He took up an artistic career relatively late, after encouragement from an uncle, and studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from 1833 to 1836, though he won no medals there. In 1835 he painted a portrait of Hans Christian Andersen (now in the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle) – its subject called it "quite atrocious", though Weger used an engraving of it as the frontispiece for the edition of Andersen's writings which he published in Leipzig. Benzon also exhibited portraits, genre paintings and one history painting in Leipzig from 1836 to 1846.

Success in Düsseldorf and Paris

Encouraged by his professor

In 1845 he travelled to Paris, from which he sent back The Norman Lord Hastings occupying an Italian city by stealth for the 1846

• Portrait of H.C. Andersen (1835,
  Det Nationalhistoriske Museum på Frederiksborg Slot
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• Death of Saint Canute (1843, Funen's Art Museum)
• The Norman Lord Hastings occupying an Italian city by stealth (1846)
• Louis IV of France recognizing Richard I and his successors as dukes of Normandy in Rouen in the presence of Harald Bluetooth (Hôtel de Ville, Rouen)

He is also represented in Denmark's Royal Collection.

External links

• https://www.kulturarv.dk/kid/VisKunstner.do?kunstnerId=3608&wsektion=alle