In 1846, her drawings were noted by the artist and art teacher Carl Gustaf Qvarnström (1810–1867), who were impressed and, through his connections made her one of the four women accepted as students at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in 1849,[2] the other three being Lea Ahlborn, Agnes Börjesson and Jeanette Möller.[3] At the time women could only study at the academy by dispensation, as women students where not formally accepted to study at the same terms as male students at the Academy before 1864.[4] In 1850, she became the first woman student to be given a scholarship by the academy to study art in Paris.[5] In Paris, she was the student of Léon Cogniet and then Ange Tissier; in 1854, she studied at the Alte Pinakothek in Münich, in 1854-55 in Rome, and participated in the World Exhibition of Paris in 1856 before returning to Sweden in 1856.[6] She visited Paris again in 1859.