Rupert Maas
Rupert Maas (born 1960) is an English painting specialist and gallery owner.[1]
Biography
Maas served on the executive committee of The Society of London Art Dealers 1998–99. He co-owns and runs The Watercolours and Drawings Fair. He has regularly written articles for the arts press and lectures on art. He also promotes Ballantine's whisky in the Far East. He is widely recognised as the leading expert on the works of the Royal Academician Augustus Leopold Egg (1816 - 1863).[citation needed]
Maas is frequently called upon to provide independent valuations for museums, both domestic and international, and has previously valued individual pictures and entire collections (for example the John Wharlton Bunney 1828-1882 archive)[citation needed] for Acceptance in Lieu. In 2006 Maas was duped into paying £20,000 for a faked art work claimed to be by fairyland painter John Anster Fitzgerald (1823–1906).[2]
Since 1995 Rupert Maas has appeared on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and on Castle in the Country as a picture specialist, and appears regularly on other programmes. He hit the headlines in late 2008 when he was seen and heard on an Antiques Roadshow programme to imply that women from Shropshire have fat ankles.[3]
Known for his ability to reel-off spontaneous art-related witticisms, one of his best known and oft-quoted quips pertains to vetting an artwork's authenticity by bearing in mind that "Everything but the naked picture is capable of lying."
He is married with three daughters and lives in Camberwell in south London.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ AntiquesUK
- ↑ "Jail for forger who conned Antiques Roadshow host", Daily Mail, 18 September 2006
- ↑ "It's official - county ankles are super!", Shropshire Star, 3 December 2008