Pilo’s coronation painting was commissioned by Gustav III in 1777 and begun in 1782. The artist has included himself in the scene, to the right, offering fellow artist Elias Martin a pinch of snuff. Pilo’s figures merge into the mysterious space of Stockholm Cathedral, filled with colour and light. The painting, which was never finished, was meant to be hung at Drottningholm, as a companion to Ehrenstrahl’s Coronation of Karl XI.

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   Pilo was born in Sweden and received his first artistic training at the Swedish academy in Stockholm. In 1740 he moved to Denmark, where he worked as an artist until 1772. He was appointed painter to the Danish court in 1741, and was later to become first professor and then director at the Danish Academy of Fine Arts. However, in 1772 he was forced to return to his native country as a result of a conflict between Sweden and Denmark. Back home he now became court painter to the Swedish king Gustav III, and in 1777 he was appointed director of the Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm. Pilo’s output consisted mainly of portraits, in which he developed a very original and personal style – influenced not only by the dominating French ideals of the time, but also by Rembrandt and by contemporary Venetian painting. After Pilo’s return to Sweden, King Gustav III commissioned from him a monumental painting of his coronation. Pilo worked on this enormous canvas (now in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm) from 1782, but it was left unfinished by his death in 1793.

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