Her painting "Music" (1889) was awarded a mention honorable at the Paris Salon.[1] After her return to Sweden in 1889, she was active as a painter until about 1900, mostly of portraits, such as those of Lisen Bonnier (her sister-in-law) as convalescent, industrialist Hjalmar Lundbohm, politician Moritz Rubenson [sv], educator Carl Meijerberg [sv] and poet and scholar Oscar Levertin. Bonnier exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[2] She is represented with several paintings in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.