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Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz (March 20, 1804 - November
14, 1832), Denmark|Danish genre painting|genre and
portrait painter, is one of the main personages
associated with the Golden Age of Danish Painting.
He was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Art
(Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) in Copenhagen
from 1820 to 1825, winnning both silver medals but
never the gold prize. He studied under professor
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, but may at the
same time have acquired some knowledge of
contemporary German painting. 

Today he is mainly remembered for his many
technically accomplished portraits, though his
ambition most of all ran towards a refined fusion
of portrait, genre scene and allegorical history
painting. His technical virtuosity is particularly
visible in his depictions of the play of light
cast from an obscured source and the resulting
shadows. During his travel to Italy - which also
brought him a one-year stay in Munich - he caught
a sickness to the lungs and died at the age of 28
in 1832.

His main works include several portraits of his
fellow artists such as Ditlev Blunck and Christen
Christensen (both in the Statens Museum for
Kunst), a scene from the Academy's anatomy class,
as well as the group portraits "A Tobacco Party"
(Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek) and "Artist in the
Evening at Finck's Cofee House in Munich"
(Thorvaldsens Museum).