Conrad Carelli BWS, Sunset on the Water near Karachi, British India – 1907 watercolour painting

Conrad H.R. Carelli BWS Sunset on the Water near Karachi, British India

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An original 1907 watercolour painting – Conrad Carelli BWS, Sunset on the Water near Karachi, British India.

A superb miniature watercolour, painted in jewel-like tones, by Conrad H.R. Carelli BWS (1869–1956).

On the verso of the sheet there is an identification, 'Karrachee from harbour (on board SS Imperator) alongside Quay. Dec 4 / 07'. It seems that this may have referred to a facing page sketch, but it is likely that the watercolour on the front is also in the region of Karachi, which at the time was part of the British Indian Empire.

Conrad H.R. Carelli BWS (1869–1956)

Born in London into a well-known family of Neapolitan artists, Conrad Hector Raphael Carelli (1869–1956) was great-grandson of painter Settimio Carelli, follower of the style of Pompeo Battoni, in Apulia, Italy; grandson of Raffaele Carelli (1795–1864), painter of the School of Posillipo; and son of artist Gabriele Carelli (1821–1900) who moved from Italy to London, where he married an Englishwoman and Queen Victoria became one of his principal patrons.

Conrad Carelli studied in Paris at the Académie Julian in 1889, under William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. The Carelli family wintered in Menton on the French Riviera, and Conrad's father Gabriele died there in 1900. For a while Conrad lived and exhibited at Menton.

Gabriele Carelli travelled regularly and extensively across Britain and Europe, and to North Africa and the Middle East. Conrad shared his father's love of travel and worked in a looser version of his father's style, producing gem-like watercolours, capturing the look and feel of local terrain and architecture.