Carl
Philip Weber was born in Germany. He is thought to be the older
brother of the Romantic landscape painter Paul Weber who worked
in Philadelphia from 1849-1860. His uncle, also named Paul Weber
(1823-1916), was a prominent German landscape painter under whom
he studied. His family immigrated in 1853 to the United States.
At the age of 30, he opened his own studio in Philadelphia, and
demonstrated his profound admiration of nature by focusing
exclusively on landscapes in the German Romantic tradition. In
Philadelphia, he was said to have "few equals and no superiors"
in the field of watercolor painting. He exhibited at the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1876-1891 and at the
National Academy of Design in New York in 1880 and 1881. He was
a member of the Philadelphia Artists Fun Society.