Consalvo Carelli, Pêcheurs au port de Naples, Oil on Canvas, Framed

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Consalvo Carelli born in Naples in March 1818 and died in Naples in December 1900.
He was an Italian painter … Read more Consalvo Carelli born in Naples in March 1818 and died in Naples in December 1900.
He was an Italian painter who was active in the 19th century.

Is a Neapolitan vedute painter, part of the Scuola di Posillipo. Consalvo Carelli is the son of Raffaele Carelli (1795 - 1864), the brother of Gabriele Carelli (1820 - 1900) and the father Giuseppe Carelli (1858 - 1921) all painters.

He received his first rudiments of painting from his father, then from the Scotsman William Leicht. He exhibited for the first time at just twelve years old at the exhibition at the Museo Borbonico in Naples. He won a second class silver medal there in 1833 (he was fifteen years old) for a painting entitled Piazza della Vicaria, purchased by the queen. Two years later he won a first class silver medal. He quickly became known on the Neapolitan artistic scene and benefited from the protection of powerful families, such as the Goerace and Meuricoffre, or the Count of Montesantangelo.

In 1837, he sold two paintings to the king, now kept in the royal palace: a View of Naples with the Powder Tower and a View of Cava. He then moved to Rome where he painted landscapes of the Roman countryside, genre scenes of popular life, as well as panoramas of his hometown, either using the oil tempera or watercolor technique.

After four years, he returned to Naples, where he exhibited paintings from his Roman period at the Borbonica. He then moved to Paris where he won a gold medal at the Salon international des arts for three years in a row, from 1842 to 1844.

He settled again in Naples in 1844 and took part in all the important exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts where he presented landscapes of Naples, Palermo or Rome, pastorals and peasant scenes. In 1845, the Russian ambassador in Naples ordered two large canvases from him on behalf of Emperor Nicholas I representing Naples from the royal gardens of the Porticos and Naples seen from the Camaldolese convent, these works are today in the Museum of the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg.

During his stay in Rome, Carelli met Massimo d'Azeglio and took part in the Battle of Volturno in 1860. At the same time, he also met Alexandre Dumas, whose book From Naples to Rome he illustrated. He also illustrated an album on brigandage which is currently in the Royal Library of Turin. He gave painting lessons to Queen Marguerite and in 1866 was named a member of the Academy of Saint Luc. This piece has an attribution mark,
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