Carl Gustaf Pilo
Artworks: 27
Leading Danish royal portraitist
Carl Gustaf Pilo was a Swedish-born artist and painter. Pilo worked extensively in Denmark as a painter to the Danish Royal Court and as professor and director at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Danish: Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi), as well as in his native Sweden. His prolific output in Denmark consisted mainly of portraits of royalty and the nobility, but included also genre paintings in the Dutch style. For over two decades, he was acknowledged as the foremost portrait painter in Denmark. In addition to Peder Als, other students of his were Per Krafft and Lorens Pasch. Pilo is most famous for his masterly painting, "The Coronation of Gustaf III" commissioned by King Gustav III of Sweden.
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Master student
- Peder Als Student
- Pehr Hörberg Student
Artworks by this artist (27 total)
- Frederik V, King of Denmark
- Portrait of Frederik V in Anointment Robe
- Louise, Frederik V’s First Queen in her Coronation Robes 1747
- Dameportræt
- Studie til et portræt, formentlig af A G Moltke; til højre på bladet studie til Elefantridderordenens kæde
- Portrait of Elisabeth Marie Fabritius, née d’Abbestée 1751 - 1752
- Portrait of Duchess Antoinette Amalie of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel 1726 - 1793
- Caritas Romana. Allegory of Love 1772
- Studie til et portræt, formentlig af AG Moltke
- Caroline Mathilde, Queen of Denmark
- Frederik V on Horseback 1754
- Count Johan Ludvig Holstein Ledreborg before 1757
- Mrs Charlotta Pilo, née Desmarées 1756
- Studie af en hånd
- Mogens Scheel von Plessen of Fussingø and Selsø 1744 - 1747
- Mrs Ann Katarina Hedenberg, née Levin 1793
- Studie til et portræt, formentlig af A G Moltke
- Portrait of Louise, Frederik V’s first queen 1751
- The Cobbler’s Family 1772
- Carl Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg 1760