Johan Fredrik Meyer

Johan Fredrik Meyer (6 January 1806, Havelberg - 17 December 1893, Stockholm) was a German-Swedish engraver and printer.

[1] In 1822, after being given private lessons in free-hand drawing, he was able to begin formal studies at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, aged only sixteen.

These included Jöns Jacob Berzelius and Fredrik Blom, who recommended Meyer to King Karl XIV Johan.

[1] This resulted in commissions for printed royal portraits, maps, stationery, menus, brochures, posters, program leaflets and the like.

[2] During the Crimean War he printed maps and portraits for Rudolf Wall, the publisher of Friskytten [sv], a short-lived daily newspaper.