Emma Josepha Sparre, born Munktell June 29, 1851 in Grycksbo, died Sept. 8, 1913 in Rättvik; Swedish baroness, artist and poet. (https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Sparre) Sparre studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm and in Düsseldorf and Rome. In Paris while she was studying with Gustave Courtois and Dagnan-Bouveret, her studio became a salon for artists and high society, as did her later home in Sweden with her artist-husband Baron Karl Axel Ambjorn Sparre. She was known mainly as a genre and portrait painter. (http://books0977.tumblr.com/post/156696951467/a-girl-reading-1890-emma-sparre-swedish) Daughter of mill owner and musician Henry Munktell and his wife Augusta. Emma's sister was the composer Helena Munktell. From 1870-1891 Emma was married to captain and artist Count Carl Axel Ambjörn Sparre. She was the mother of artist Martha Améen born Sparre.... Sparre's studio became a gathering spot for many artists and members of high society in Paris.... Her artistic style was related to genre paintings, fairy pictures and monumental canvases, but her best and most personal contribution was in portraiture. After the turn of the century, she began to take an interest in landscape paintings... Her artwork has been considered different from "screaming gaudy colours" and to have "the warm colouring you got used to finding in this unusual colour virtuoso". Sparre moved back to Sweden in the 1890s and in 1897 had a house Solgården built in Dalarna... She was visited by many famous guests during these last days, including Selma Lagerlof and Anders Zorn. Solgården was declared a heritage building in 2001. (https://www.facebook.com/female.artists.in.history/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1452175791733972; edited for clarity) undefined

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