Emma Fürstenhoff

Emilia "Emma" Fürstenhoff, née Lindegren (1802 – March 1871), was a Swedish artist (florist), internationally known for her manufacturing and arrangements of artificial flowers of wax, which were a novelty in contemporary Europe.

Emma Fürstenhoff was born in Stockholm, the daughter of the poet and royal secretary Carl Johan Lindegren (d. 1815) and the noble Sofia Silfverskiöld.

Around the age of twenty, she married for love to A. Fürstenhoff, a clerk at Gustafsberg's porcelain factory, with whom she had a son, Johan.

In an exhibition at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, she was a great success, and her flowers were considered better than the real ones.

She separated from her husband and moved permanently to Paris, where she founded a studio for manufacturing artificial flowers.