Consalvo's father, Raffaelle Carelli, was an early member of the School of Posillipo and who had migrated to Naples from Apulia.
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.
A painting by Carelli, stolen in Italy in 2001, was returned to that country by the United States government in 2016.
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