Anton Sminck Pitloo

Anton Sminck Pitloo (sometimes known under the name Italianized Antonio Pitloo ) (1780 - 1837) of origin Dutchwoman was an Italian painter. Pitloo was born with Arnhem, with the Netherlands in 1780. It started to study painting at the school Von Amerton of its birthplace, then with Paris, between 1808 and 1811. It continued then its career with Rome where it remained a few years, before going to Naples where it lived the remainder of its life. In 1820 it married Giulia Mori and became citizen of the Deux-Siciles. He became professor at the Institute of the Art schools of Naples where he taught the art of the landscape. He was at the origin of an anti-academic school carried out by his disciple Giacinto Gigante, of which the goal was to represent the landscape in a spontaneous way, while going on the reason. This artistic movement is one of the first préfigurations of the Impressionnisme, more than 60 years before this one! Pitloo died in Naples in 1837. It with left many landscapes of a large smoothness and a disconcerting modernity, the majority realized on the reason.

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Neapolitan Landscape by Pitloo on an Italian site dedicated to Article
Pitloo on Libreria Neapolis

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