Rupert Maas was born in 1960, the same year that his father Jeremy started The Maas Gallery in Mayfair, London, dealing in Pre-Raphaelite paintings. He was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset 1973-78, and took a Desmond in Art History at Essex University 1980- 83. He sailed the Atlantic in the summer of 1983 but was tricked by his father into joining him at The Maas Gallery later that year. Following the death of his father in 1997 he owns and runs the Gallery, which deals in Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite, Romantic and Modern British paintings, watercolours, drawings, reproductive engravings and sculpture, and the work of two or three living artists. Under Rupert’s father, the Gallery gained the reputation of having spearheaded the revival of interest in Victorian Art.Rupert has maintained this tradition and has arranged a number of important exhibitions at his Gallery, including Pre-Raphaelites and Romantics, Masters of British Illustration, John Ruskin and his Circle, Burne-Jones, Victorian Fairy Paintings, regular exhibitions of Victorian Engravings and annual exhibitions of Victorian Paintings.

Since 1995 he has appeared on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow and on Castle in the Country, as a picture specialist, and appears regularly on other programmes (next one The Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Revolutionaries BBC 4, June 15, 8.30pm). He served on the executive committee of The Society of London Art Dealers 1998 -9. He co-owns and runs The Watercolours and Drawings Fair. He has regularly written articles for the arts press and lectures on art like a maniac. Another job, like Bill Murray in Lost in Translation, is to promote Ballantine’s whisky in the Far East as a work of art acting as a roving brand ambassador. This he does on regular trips with a small but dangerous Scottish person.

He is married with three daughters and lives in Camberwell. His hobbies are sailing, reading, mending things and harassing his local Council.