苏菲出生于巴黎，查尔斯安东尼Colomb酒店Gengembre，一个法国建筑师和艺术家，和他的英国妻子，娘家姓是休伯特的女儿。他们在早年苏菲的生活，她的父亲与艺术家，知识分子和演员，像熟悉的住在巴黎弗朗索瓦约瑟夫塔尔马。要求的情况下，家庭离开巴黎，住在一个在法国“偏远地区”，从1829到1843年十七岁时，当行驶肖像画家去看望她，她镇发展对艺术的兴趣。

她有两个兄弟，菲利普和亨利P. Gengembre。[3]她的弟弟菲利普改名叫菲利普·休伯特，用他母亲的娘家姓，住在纽约市的一个成功的建筑师。 她主要是自学成才在艺术上，而是研究了短暂的写照与查尔斯·斯托本在1843年左右，当她住在巴黎的家人朋友。不久之后，她开始了她的研究中，他离开俄罗斯和为期一年的分配给她的学业内没有返回。她并发展与在学校其他女艺术家的关系，她获得了更多一点的指令。
 

Sophie was born in Paris, Colomb Hotel Gengembre, a French architect and artist, and his British wife, her maiden name is the daughter of Hubert. They lived in the early years of Sophie, her father with artists, intellectuals and actors, like the familiar living in Paris, Francois Joseph Tarma. Asked the case, the family left Paris, living in a remote area of France, from 1829 to 1843 when the age of seventeen, when traveling portrait painter to visit her, she was interested in the development of art.
She has two brothers, Philip and P. Gengembre. [3] her younger brother, Philip, changed his name to Philip Hubert, using his mother's maiden name, a successful architect living in New York.  she was largely self-taught in art, but instead studied a short portrayal of Charles Stow's family in 1843, when she lived with her family in Paris. Soon after, she began her study in which he left Russia and a year of assignment to her school did not return. She also developed relationships with other female artists in the school, and she got a little more instruction.