Christian Albrecht von Benzon

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

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.

Lund, in 1840 or 1841 Benzon travelled to Düsseldorf, where he married the painter Marie Therese Hubertine Rosalie Cazin – their home became the most brilliant cultural hub in the city according to the painter Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann.

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