Raffaele Carelli (25 September 1795 in

Martina Franca Martina Franca, or just Martina ( Martinese: ), is a town and ''municipality'' in the province of Taranto, Apulia, Italy. It is the second most populated town of the province after Taranto, and has a population (2016) of 49,086. Since 1975, th ...

- 1864 in

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, Italy) was an Italian painter and painter of the

School of Posillipo The School of Posillipo refers to a loose group of landscape painters, based in the waterfront Posillipo neighborhood of Naples, Italy. While some among them became academicians, it was not a formal school or association. In the 18th century, lands ...

. 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

Pompeo Battoni Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign visitors tra ...

. Raffaele as a young man sought employment in

, and initially worked with a painting restorer, but soon worked in the studio with Wilhelm Jakob Huber. 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 William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, (21 May 1790 K. D. Reynolds, ‘Cavendish, William George Spencer, sixth duke of Devonshire (1790–1858)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; ...

in some tours of Sicily, Greece, Asia Minor, and Constantinople.Lord Napier, page 95. He was the father of the painters

Consalvo Consalvo, also occasionally spelled Gonsalvo and also rarely Consalvos, is an Italian male given name. It also occurs as a surname. Its name day is February the 5th. Origin It is derived from the medieval Latin name Gundisalvus, which was the Lat ...

(Gonsalvo) and Gabriele Carelli. He is the grandfather of the painters Giuseppe Carelli (1858 - 1921), son of Conzalvo, and Conrad Hector Raffaele Carelli (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