Carl Gustaf Pilo

Carl Gustaf Pilo (1711 in Nyköping - 1793 in Stockholm.) was a Swedish Artist and Painter. Carl Gustaf is most famous for his masterly painting, "The Coronation of Gustaf III"

Carl Gustaf was one of the 18th century Swedish artists who left Sweden to make their fortune abroad. He moved to Denmark in 1741, becoming painter to the Danish Court. He also became a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Danish: Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi), and in 1771 he succeeded Jacques Francis Joseph Saly to the leadership of the Academy.

His prolific output in Denmark consisted mainly of portraits, including a full figure portrait of the king, "Frederik V in Coronation Outfit" ("Frederik V i kroningsdragt") in 1751, which is now in the collection of the Danish National Museum of Art.Gustav III's coup d'état in 1772 turned the Danes against Sweden, and Pilo had to leave Denmark after more than 30 years of service to the Danish crown. He settled in his childhood town of Nyköping. Gustav III looked him up, requesting him to paint the coronation. Pilo tried to get out of it, because he had not been there at the time and he had never painted a group picture in his life. But the King would not take No for an answer. He wanted something to match Ehrenstrahl's picture, at Drottningholm, of Charles XI's coronation, and he wanted Pilo to do it.

The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from the existing paintings.h

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