What significance did the painting self portrait with two pupils by adelaide labille-guiard have for female artists?

Adelaide Labille - Guiard was a famous painter born in April 1749. Her work Self Portrait with Two Pupils finished in 1785 achieved a place in the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, in a time where only four places were reserved to women. The painting of the Adelaide shows herself and two female students behind her and it has been interpreted as a way to ask for more places for women in the Academy.

sir thomas more, venerated in the catholic church as saint thomas more, was an english lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted renaissance humanist. he was also a councillor to henry viii, and lord high chancellor of england from october 1529 to 16 may 1532.