Abstract
Abstract Born in Prussia to a Jewish family, Felix Bamberg (1820–1893) is known principally as the man who sold his collection of Old Masters to King Carol I of Romania (1839–1914), now mostly in the National Museum of Art of Romania in Bucharest. The first aim of this article is to provide a more accurate portrait of this cultured man, who moved to France in the early 1840s and whose main career as a German consul, disrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, was spent between Paris, Messina and Genoa. The second is to study how and why, from 1867 onwards, starting in the Parisian auction rooms and finishing with Italian private collections, he gathered an impressive collection of Old Masters, particularly from the Spanish and Northern schools. Finally, as far as possible, the reasons for the sale of his collection to Carol I between 1879 and 1890 and the terms they agreed are investigated.
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