Wilhelmina Lagerholm

Wilhelmina Catharina Lagerholm (1826–1917) was a Swedish painter and an early professional female photographer.

After first studying and practising painting, she turned mainly to photography in 1862, opening a studio in Örebro in central Sweden.

[3] She studied art in Stockholm, Paris and Düsseldorf, becoming proficient as a portraitist.

From 1862 to 1871, she worked as a photographer in Örebro but then moved to Stockholm where she became a portrait and genre painter.

[3] She is remembered as one of Sweden's earliest professional female professional along with Emma Schenson in Uppsala, Hilda Sjölin in Malmö and Rosalie Sjöman in Stockholm.

Lagerholm's oil portrait of Professor August Malmstrom