Wilhelm Bendz (b. Odense 1804, d. Vicenza 1832)
Purchased by Thorvaldsens Museum in March 2015.
Portrait in profile of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen with an earring. Signed W. Bendz fecit. Pencil on paper. Sheet size 20.5×17 cm. Unframed.
Miniature painter Carl Ploetz executed about 1821 an almost identical drawing of Thorvaldsen owned by the the Nationalhistoriske Museum at Frederiksborg. The young Bendz must have known that one.
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Paintings, 24 February 2015