Carelli Gonsalvo

Gonsalvo Carelli, Neapolitan painter, born in 1818 who died in 1900. Carelli was a talented child prodigy, showing, when still a young boy, a great ability in painting. A very creative and tireless artist, his favored technique was watercolor. Carelli could boast the appreciation of bourgeois and noble classes, of Italian and foreign kings. When in France he become a great friend of Alexandre Dumas, illustrating with his paintings the book Voyage de Naples a Rome, by the French writer. In that same year, 1860, he produced also an album with one hundred and sixty views of the Kingdom of Naples for the emperor Napoleon III. In Naples Carelli met the painter and writer Massimo D'Azeglio who inspired him to create historical and literary landscapes. But the most favored and characteristic subjects of his works were the gulf of Naples, the views of Capri and Ischia, the Amalfi coast and picturesque ruins. - He was the father of Giuseppe Carelli, and the brother of Achille Carelli and of Gabriele Carelli [1820-1880] who was the father of Conrad Carelli.