Carl Gustaf Pilo (1711 – 1793)

• Was a Swedish painter.
• Carl Gustaf Pilo was born on the farm Göksäter in Runtuna Parish near Nyköping, Södermanland.
• He probably received his early training from his father.
• Pilo's career began as a craft painter.
• Pilo lived 1738-1741 in Scania where he may have worked as a craft painter for two Scanian noble families.

• In early 1741, Pilo left Skåne, and moved to Copenhagen.

• He started working as drawing teacher at the Academy on 4 April 1741, teaching the sons of Danish nobility.

• He concentrated on developing his craft during the 1740s.

• On 28 June 1745 he became supervisor of drawing instruction, and began making portraits for King Christian VI.

• In 1747, Pilo was named painter to the royal court under the newly crowned King Frederik V.

• In 1748, Pilo was named professor at the Drawing and Painting Academy.

• He became a member of the Academy of Art in Augsburg 1759, and a member of the Academy of Art in St. Petersburg 1770.

• He exhibited at Charlottenborg in 1769.

• The royal court set a high demand on Pilo's productivity in the years 1748-1767, having purchased more than 50 portraits of King Frederik V.

• He died in Stockholm on 2 March 1793.

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