Raffaele Carelli

Raffaele's father, Settimio Carelli, was a painter in Apulia, where he had been a follower of the style of Pompeo Battoni.

[3] Raffaele as a young man sought employment in Naples, and initially worked with a painting restorer, but soon worked in the studio with Wilhelm Jakob Huber.

[4] 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.

As a documentary painter, completing water colors of various sights, he accompanied the 6th Duke of Devonshire in some tours of Sicily, Greece, Asia Minor, and Constantinople.

[6] He was the father of the painters Consalvo (Gonsalvo) and Gabriele Carelli.