Antonie Sminck Pitloo

The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris, Rome and Naples. Works named in the authority record are San Giorgio in Velabro in Rome and The Grotto of Posillipo at Naples. Work by Antonie Sminck Pitloo is recorded in the collections of Rijksmuseum, Museo di Capodimonte, National Gallery, Museum Arnhem and Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano.

Pitloo was born in Arnhem. He started studying painting first at Paris and then at Rome, where there was already an international artistic colony, in 1811. He took advantage of a scholarship offered by Louis Bonaparte, the King of Holland. In 1815, after the fall of Bonaparte, the scholarship payments ceased. He was then invited to Naples by the Russian diplomat and art connoisseur Count Grigory Vladimirovich Orloff (1777 – 22 June 1826). In 1816, Pitloo won, in a public competition, the post of professor of landscape at the Neapolitan Academy. Lord Napier lauded him as a landscape painter: • Illustration — La Lanterna del Molo (date unknown) In 1820 he married Giulia Mori and thus became a citizen of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. He became a lecturer at the Art Institute of Art at Naples where he specialized in pastoral painting. Around 1826 he was living in Vicoletto del Vasto 15, with Carl Götzloff, Giacinto Gigante and Teodoro Duclere. Gabriele Smargiassi was his pupil and successor at the academy. Another pupil was Vincenzo Franceschini. He remained in Naples until his death during a cholera epidemic. He was buried in the English Cemetery there. • Illustration — Castel dell'Ovo, Naples. c.1820 He was considered a leading exponent of the "Posillipo School" of painting, named to the area where he lived in Naples. His paintings have been compared to precursors of Impressionism, some sixty years before this was invented.