Consalvo Carelli (29 March 1818 in
Naples
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– 2 December 1900 in Naples, Italy) was an Italian landscape painter and painter of the
School of Posillipo. He is also known as Gonsalvo Carelli.
Portrait of Consalvo Carelli
Biography
Consalvo's father,
Raffaelle Carelli, was an early member of the
School of Posillipo and who had migrated to Naples from Apulia. In 1837, he was given a scholarship to travel to Rome, where he attached himself to the
French Academy in Rome
The French Academy in Rome (, ) is an academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio (Pincian Hill) in Rome, Italy.
History
The Academy was founded at the Palazzo Capranica in 1666 by Louis XIV under the dire ...
. He returned to Naples in 1840, but lived for three years in Paris (1841-1843), where he gained recognition as a landscape painter. He helped illustrate a travel journal of
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas (born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas , was a French novelist and playwright.
His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the mos ...
. He had patronage from French, English, and Russian aristocracy. He was the brother of the painter Gabriele Carelli. He was the father of the painter
Giuseppe Carelli (1858 - 1921), and uncle of
Conrad Hector Raffaele Carelli (1866-1956), son of Gabriele. One of his pupils was
Egidio De Maulo.
A painting by Carelli, stolen in Italy in 2001, was returned to that country by the United States government in 2016.
Bibliography
External links
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1818 births
1900 deaths
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Naples
19th-century Italian male artists
Artists from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies