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Fredrika Eleonora von Düben

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Fredrika Eleonora von Düben (1738–1808) was a Swedish dilettante painter and Embroidery artist, an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (1783). She was maid of honor to the Queen, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, in 1757-59 and Chief Court mistress, Mistress of the Robes of the Swedish queen dowager in 1771-1782.

Fredrika Eleonora was born to Baron Joachim von Düben, the nephew of the royal favourite Emerentia von Düben, and Catharina Eleonora Temming. She married Count Nils Adam Bielke, previously married to her relative Ulrika Eleonora von Düben, in 1759. She was inducted as honorary member of the academy after having participated in the art exhibition with an embroidered landscape in white silk.

Sources

  • Lindberg, Anna Lena: Through the Needle's Eye: Embroidered Pictures on the Threshold of Modernity Eighteenth-Century Studies (1998)
  • Gustaf Elgenstierna: Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor 1925-36.
  • Fredrika Eleonora von Düben i Wilhelmina Stålberg, Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor (1864)
  • Dahlberg och Hagström: Svenskt konstlexikon. Allhems Förlag (1953) Malmö.
  • Gerd Ribbing (1958). Gustav III:s hustru. Sofia Magdalena. Stockholm: Alb. Bonniers Boktryckeri. ISBN
  • Kvinnor vid maktens sida: 1632 - 1772 Svante Norrhem
  • http://www.adelsvapen.com/genealogi/Von_D%C3%BCben_nr_139
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