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)
- Sofia Magdalena, Queen of Sweden 1765
- The Cobbler’s Family 1772
- Portræt af Christian Jacobsen Drakenberg 1741
- Studie til et portræt, formentlig af AG Moltke
- Mrs Charlotta Pilo, née Desmarées 1756
- Portrait of Mahmud Agas, Ambassador of Tripolis 1899
- Dameportræt
- Studie til et portræt, formentlig af A G Moltke
- Caroline Mathilde, Queen of Denmark
- Portrait of Frederik V in Anointment Robe
- Portrait of Elisabeth Marie Fabritius, née d’Abbestée 1751 - 1752
- Carl Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg 1760
- Sofia Magdalena, Queen of Sweden 1766
- Frederik V, King of Denmark
- Frederik V on Horseback 1754
- Louise, Queen of Denmark 1740s
- Studie af en hånd
- Coronation of Gustav III 1782-1793
- Juliane Marie, Queen of Denmark 1762
- Portrait of Louise, Frederik V’s first queen 1751