Louise Meijerfeldt

Lovisa "Louise" Augusta Meijerfeldt née Sparre af Sundby (12 September 1745 – 16 September 1817), was a Swedish noble and courtier. She is famous in history as one of "the three graces" of the Gustavian age; three ladies-in-waiting (Augusta von Fersen, Ulla von Höpken and Louise Meijerfeldt) immortalized in the poem Gracernas döpelse by Johan Henric Kellgren, and known profiles of the epoch.

Louise Meijerfeldt was the daughter of Governor general major Count Axel Wrede-Sparre and Augusta Törnflycht. In 1763, she married Field marshal Count Johan August Meijerfeldt the Younger (1725-1800) in the presence of King Adolph Frederick of Sweden and queen Louisa Ulrika. She had two children, both of the male.

The couple were well seen by the royal house - her spouse had been entrusted by the queen during the Coup of 1756 - and given a prominent position at court. From 1776 to 1795, she served as statsfru (Lady of the Bedchamber) to queen Sophia Magdalena.

Louise Meijerfeldt was admired for her beauty and charm and often mentioned in diaries, letters and memoirs of the era. Alongside Augusta von Fersen and Ulla von Höpken, she became known as one of "the three graces" in the poem Gracernas döpelse (The Baptism of the Graces) by Johan Henric Kellgren, which was written in circa 1779 and published in 1781. Kellgren had been employed as the private teacher of her sons from 1777 to 1780. The poet Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, once the governor of her two sons, referred to her as: "a beauty, whom the old world would have worshipped on their knees as Diana and Venus".

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