Continued Career in Denmark
In early 1741 when marriage to Malmgren began to loom, Pilo left Skåne, Scania in English, and moved to Copenhagen, Denmark. There is some question as to whether he left his fiancée behind in Sweden in a childbearing state. In any case Pilo refused to marry her, and the engagement first became legally annulled on 5 May 1747.
He brought with him to Denmark a letter of introduction from Charlotte Amélie Dorothée Desmarez, governess at the Ramel residence and his future wife, to her brother-in-law C.G. Almer, language teacher at the National Cadet Academy (Landkadetakademiet) in Copenhagen. He started working as drawing teacher at the Academy on 4 April 1741, teaching the sons of Danish nobility, the royal pages and cadets. He became at that time a favorite of Admiral Count Danneskjold. He continued his career as a portraitist in Denmark. He painted an enthusiastically received portrait of Crown Princess Louise of England, the wife of the future Frederick V, one of centenarian Christen Jacobsen Drakenberg in 1742, at the acclaimed age of 116, and another of Christian Lerche in 1743. He concentrated on developing his craft during the 1740s, and probably drew from model in 1744. His duties soon expanded at the Academy; when on 28 June 1745 he became supervisor of drawing instruction, and began making portraits for King Christian VI.
In the years 1745-1747 he began to introduce rococo into his artwork, as seen in his portraits of Sophie Dorothea Danneskiold-Samsøe and A.G. Moltke.
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