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Pitloo [Pitlo], Anton [Antonie; Antonio] Sminck [Smink] (van)
(b Arnhem, 21 April 1791; d Naples, 22 June 1837). Dutch painter, active in Italy. He trained between 1803 and 1807 under the genre and watercolour painter H. J. van Ameron of Arnhem (1777–1833), and won various prizes, eventually receiving a grant to study architecture in Paris. He went there together with his friend the architect Zeger Reijers and stayed from 1808 until 1811. He trained under the architect Percier and then studied landscape painting with Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld, a follower of the Poussin tradition. Pitloo is also believed to have trained under the classical landscape painter Jean-Victor Bertin, and he was fascinated by academic art (François Gérard, Anne-Louis Girodet and Baldassare Ommeganck among the painters, and Antonio Canova among the sculptors). Pitloo’s real development as a painter, however, took place after his move to Italy. He arrived in Rome in 1811 and there studied with the Dutch landscape painters Abraham Teerlink and Hendrik Voogd, and the Fleming Martin Verstappen (1773–1853). He attracted several patrons including the Duke of Berwick. In about 1815 Pitloo moved to Naples, where he remained for the rest of his life, with only short trips away: a journey to Switzerland and Sicily in 1819 is recorded in a group of landscape drawings (Rome, G.N.A. Mod.).
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