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 hi…