She was either the daughter or niece of opera singer Franziska Stading (1763–1836). She studied art in Stockholm as a student of the landscape painter Carl Johan Fahlcrantz. She continued her studies in Germany and Italy, something which was to become more common in the mid 19th-century, but was still unusual for a Swedish female in the 1820s, and something she was admired by her contemporaries as a pioneer by doing.