[3] Charles Saumarez Smith, director of the National Portrait Gallery, called her "one of the finest figurative artists of the generation".
A survey of her work is provided by the book, Sarah Raphael Drawings, published by Carcanet Press Ltd, October 2004.
As William Boyd has written of her figurative works, "You can tell how good they are yourself: you don't need the imprimatur of a gallery or a dealer or a patron.
She has works hanging in the Metropolitan Museum in New York[6] and in several large corporate collections as well as London's National Portrait Gallery.
By 1995, she was so much in demand that her paintings were fetching £50,000[citation needed] Raphael married Nick McDowell in 1985 and they had three daughters.