Frederik Engel Jeltsema

{{Short description|Dutch painter and sculptor}}

Frederick Engel (Fre) Jeltsema (Uithuizen, 4 October 1879 - The Hague, 16 February 1971) was a Dutch painter and sculptor.{{Cite book |last1=Medals |first1=British Museum Department of Coins and |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rkJmAAAAMAAJ&q=Frederik+Engel+Jeltsema |title=Acquisitions of Medals (1983-1987) |last2=Attwood |first2=Philip |date=1991 |publisher=British Museum |isbn=978-0-86159-078-0 |language=en}}

Because of a medical uncertainty at birth, Jeltsema was registered as a girl in the municipality's population registry. This was administratively corrected in 1906.{{Cite book |last=Sarton |first=George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a2UbAAAAMAAJ |title=Isis |date=1927 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |pages=110 |language=en}}

In 1892–1896 Jeltsema followed a course at the Minerva Academy in Groningen. He then followed an initial training for drawing teacher, but opted for training as a sculptor at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (1899–1902). In 1902 he won the Dutch Prix de Rome.