Carl Weber was born in Philadelphia, the son of the German immigrant artist Paul Weber. Carl received his initial training from his father and undertook additional studies as a young artist in Munich, Frankfurt, and Paris in the 1860s. Upon returning to the States in the mid-1870s, Weber established a studio in Philadelphia and exhibited regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Art Club, and the National Academy of Design. Particularly noted for his views of the rural Pennsylvania landscape, he also painted scenes in New Jersey, Illinois, and New England. This painting depicts the pastoral landscape surrounding Mount Washington in New Hampshire, a perennial favorite subject of Hudson River School artists.
