Francesco Morelli (ca. 1767 – ca. 1830) was a French-Italian painter and engraver. He was active in Naples and known as a painter or engraver of Pompeian subjects.Nova bibliotheca pompeiana: L–Z, by Laurentino García y García (1998), p. 837.Ricerche su l'origine, su i progressi, e sul decadimento delle arti, 1821, by Giovanni Battista Gennaro Grossi, p. 30.
He was born in the Franche-Comté, and then travelled to Rome.Bollettino d'arte, Issues 127–130, article by Adele Fiadino, (2008) p. 121. He completed a series of engravings depicting the so-called Villa of Horace in Licenza with Hackert and Luigi Sabatelli.Raccolta di no. 10 vedute rappresentanti la villa d'Orazio.
Another Francesco Morelli from Florence was the first and dear mentor of Giovanni Baglione.
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