Complex sentence: Holten studied drawing under Carl Thomsen, Laurits Tuxen and Frans Schwartz but as a painter she was essentally self taught, but continued her studies in Paris together with her friends Elise Konstantin-Hansen, Edma Frølich and Sofie Holten.
Split into simpler sentences: Holten studied drawing under Carl Thomsen, Laurits Tuxen and Frans Schwartz but as a painter she was essentially self taught. She continued her studies in Paris together with her friends Elise Konstantin-Hansen, Edma Frølich and Sofie Holten.