Raffaele Carelli (25 September 1795 in Martina Franca - 1864 in

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, Italy) was an Italian painter and painter of the School of Posillipo. 250px, Isola del Liri, Cascata del Valcatoio Raffaele's father, Settimio Carelli, was a painter in

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, where he had been a follower of the style of

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. Raffaele as a young man sought employment in

, and initially worked with a painting restorer, but soon worked in the studio with

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. In 1833, he won a prize for landscape art from the Neapolitan Academy for two vistas of ''Cascade of Fibreno'' and the ''Scoglio di Frisa''. He was best known for his landscape paintings, sometimes commingling with genre scenes. As a ''documentary'' painter, completing water colors of various sights, he accompanied the 6th Duke of Devonshire in some tours of Sicily, Greece, Asia Minor, and Constantinople.Lord Napier, page 95. He was the father of the painters

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(Gonsalvo) and Gabriele Carelli. He is the grandfather of the painters

Giuseppe Carelli Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph, from Latin Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף. It is the most common name in Italy and is unique (97%) to it. The feminine form of the name is Giusep ...

(1858 - 1921), son of Conzalvo, and

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(1866-1956), son of Gabriele.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carelli, Rafaelle 1795 births 1864 deaths People from Martina Franca Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters Painters from Naples 19th-century Italian male artists