# Ulrika Melin

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{{Short description|Swedish artist (1767–1834)}}
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'''Ulrika Melin''' (1767–1834) was a [Swedish](/source/Swedish_people) [textile](/source/textile) artist and a member of the [Royal Swedish Academy of Arts](/source/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](/source/Royal_Swedish_Academy_of_Fine_Arts) for a work in white [sateen](/source/sateen) inspired by the work of [Claude Lorrain](/source/Claude_Lorrain).{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}

== See also ==
* [Wendela Gustafva Sparre](/source/Wendela_Gustafva_Sparre)
* [Maria Johanna Görtz](/source/Maria_Johanna_G%C3%B6rtz)

== References ==
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==Further reading==
* {{SKBL}}

== 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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