Antonie Sminck Pitloo - Artist Info

About Antonie Sminck Pitloo

Name variants

Anton Smink Van Pitloo, Antonio Sminck Pitloo, Antoon Sminck Pitoo
  • Biography

    Antonie or Anton Sminck Pitloo (21 April or 8 May 1790 – 22 June 1837) was a Dutch painter. His surname was originally Pitlo, but he added the extra "o" because he was often mistaken for an Italian while resident in Italy. In Italian he is also known as Antonio van Pitloo.

    Pitloo was born in Arnhem, Holland. 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 1...

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