{{Short description|Swedish artist (1767–1834)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Ulrika Melin | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date text|1767}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death year and age|1834|1767}} | death_place = | education = | field = Textile art | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = {{marriage|Peter Thure Gerhard Drufva|1788|}} }} '''Ulrika Melin''' (1767–1834) was a Swedish textile artist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.

She was born to Major Lars Melin and was a sister of General Major Henrik Georg Melin. She was married to the governor of Västerås Castle, Peter Thure Gerhard Drufva, in 1788. Melin was a textile artist with "an unusual ability to sew landskapes".<ref>Anteckningar om svenska qvinno</ref> In 1784, she was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts for a work in white sateen inspired by the work of Claude Lorrain.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}

== See also == * Wendela Gustafva Sparre * Maria Johanna Görtz

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== External links == * [https://runeberg.org/sqvinnor/0300.html Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor ] * Dahlberg och Hagström: ''Svenskt konstlexikon''. Allhems Förlag (1953) Malmö.

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