This Carl Weber, a watercolor and oil painter, should not be confused with his cousin Carl Philipp Weber. See the explanation following the biography.

Carl C, Weber was born on Oct. 18, 1850, in Philadelphia, the son of Daniel Gottlieb Paul Weber (Paul Weber in common usage), a well-known German artist who had emigrated with his wife Emma and family to the U.S. in late 1848 or early 1849.

Early in the 1860s, probably in 1861, Paul Weber returned to Germany to continue his career as an artist in an important official post. In addition to studying with his father in Frankfort, Carl Weber also studied in Munich, Vienna and Paris before returning to Philadelphia sometime in the 1870s, probably around 1874. ...