Ida von Schulzenheim was born 8 January 1859 in Stora Skedvi[1] to landowner baron David T. von Schulzenheim and Ida Sophia Cederborgh. She studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, and from 1888 in Paris under Julien Dupré, Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Benjamin Constant. She was given an honorary mention at the worlds exhibit in Paris 1889, a silver medal in Amiens in 1890, a gold medal in Stockholm in 1891, an honorary mention in Paris in 1892