Felix Schlesinger (1833 - 1910) Oil on canvas, signed lower left, measures (26 x 18) w/frame (31 x 23 inches) In the mid-nineteenth century, the city of Hamburg was a sovereign state within the German Confederation, a loosely organization group of thirty-nine states created at the Vienna Congress of 1815 when Europe reorganized itself after the fall of Napoleon. It was into this independent and thriving commercial port city that Felix Schlesinger was born on October 9, 1833. His older brother Karl was born five years earlier in Lausanne, Switzerland, which suggests that the Schlesinger family had only recently moved to Hamburg.

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