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)