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Carl Gustaf Pilo

1711 - 1793

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Carl Gustaf Pilo (5 March 1711 – 2 March 1793) was a Swedish 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Gustaf Pilo has received more than 35,470 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Gustaf Pilo is the 1,422nd most popular painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Carl Gustaf Pilo ranks 1,422 out of 2,023. Before him are Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin, Ernst Josephson, Ephraim Moses Lilien, François Marius Granet, Adolphe Yvon, and Ilya Glazunov. After him are Carl Fredrik Hill, Pavel Chistyakov, Jenny Nyström, Gabriel François Doyen, Julien Dupré, and Cornelis Pietersz Bega.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1711, Carl Gustaf Pilo ranks 21. Before him are William Boyce, Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Thomas Wright, Princess Amelia of Great Britain, and Shah Jahan III. After him are Ignaz Holzbauer, and Stepan Krasheninnikov. Among people deceased in 1793, Carl Gustaf Pilo ranks 43. Before him are Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, Karl Philipp Moritz, John Michell, Leopold Hofmann, Noël Martin Joseph de Necker, and Katsukawa Shunshō. After him are Anton Friedrich Büsching, Roger Sherman, Timur Shah Durrani, William Robertson, Johann August Ephraim Goeze, and Gilbert White.

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