The newSacklerBuildingprovidesnewpurpose made accommodationforall the Paintingstudentsatthe RoyalCollegeof Art to worktogetherunderonerooffor the first timeinover10years.
The same steely fortitude that helped propel her from a humble childhood in the seaside town of Margate to the Maidstone College ofArt, and later to London's prestigious Royal College ofArt, has emboldened her work with a disarming honesty and made her one of the most prominent artists of her generation.
The noted caricaturists Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin depicted both the art and the raucous crowd of viewers at a Royal Academy exhibition in their satirical work "The Exhibition Room at Somerset House" (1800).