Early Life, Family and Training Carl Schmid enters the historical record on October 7, 1799, in Stettin. He is born into a lineage of visual practitioners. His father, Peter Schmid, works as a painter and art educator, while his mother is Barbara Maria, née Saarburg. The family environment is one of technical instruction and artistic practice, a setting shared with his brother, the portrait painter Wilhelm Schmid. The specifics of his earliest instruction remain somewhat obscured by time. He may have received his first basic artistic training in Aachen, though the exact circumstances of the…