Ulrika Melin

Ulrika Melin (1767–1834) was a Swedish textile artist, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.

Born to major Lars Melin and sister to general major Henrik Georg Melin, and from 1788 married to the governor of Västerås Castle, Peter Thure Gerhard Drufva. Melin was a textile artist with the an unusual ability to sew landskapes. In 1784, she was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts for a work in white Sateen inspired by the work of Claude Lorrain.

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