Anton Sminck van Pitloo

Although Sminck van Pitloo was of Dutch origin, he spent most of his life outside the Netherlands. He studied in Paris between 1808 and 1810 under Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld and Jean-Victor Bertin (1767-1842) and then left for Italy, where he was to spend the rest of his life. He is best remembered as the master of two Italian painters, Giacinto Gigante (1806-1876) and Achille Vianelli (1803-1894), with whom he founded a school of landscape painting known as the School of Posillipo in the 1820s.