 Ten years later, they returned to Mariestad then in the 1860s, lived at Sjögerås, another estate near Falköping.She attended the girls' school in Skara, where her teachers noticed her artistic talent and began giving her lessons in oil painting.In 1865, she enrolled in formal studies at the Slöjdskolan Stockholm and later became one of the first female students at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.