Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Weber, Paul

WEBER, Paul, German artist, b. about 1823. He studied art in Frankfort, and in 1848 came to the United States, settling in Philadelphia. In 1858 he went to Darmstadt, where he was appointed court painter. Among those of his works that are owned in the United States are “A Scene in the Catskills,” in the Corcoran gallery, Washington (1858); “Morning,” in the Pennsylvania academy of fine arts; and “Lake Chiemsee, in the Bavarian Highlands.”