Mauritz Frumerie

Mauritz Frumerie (18 May 1775 – 7 March 1853)[1] was a Swedish medal engraver and lithographer.

[2] He was the son of the inspector at the Admiralty College Klas Elias Frumerie[3] and Margareta Sofia Stierngranat.

[3] Frumerie was a student and assistant to Carl Enhörning and from 1791 took part in the teaching at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm.

As part of his work for the Academy of Sciences he made medals of its members until 1846 when he stopped this activity.

Among Frumerie's works are medals on the coronation of Charles XIII (1809), the jubelfesten in 1818, the jubilee parties of the Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Sciences in 1839, and of Fredrik Henrik af Chapman.

Olof Swartz, sketch drawn by Frumerie, 1824