Rupert Maas

Rupert Nicholas Maas (born 23 July 1960) is an English painting specialist and gallery owner. He is better known for his appearances on the long-running BBC One series Antiques Roadshow where he has been a member of the team of experts since 1997.

Biography Born in 1960 and raised in London, Rupert is the middle of three children and the oldest son of the art dealer Jeremy Maas (1928–1997) and artist and equestrian Antonia Armstrong Willis (1932–2017). Rupert has an older sister Athena (born 1957) and a younger brother Jonathan (born 1962).

His father started the Maas Gallery in Mayfair, London, dealing in Pre-Raphaelite paintings, writing a book in 1969, Victorian Painters. Maas was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset from 1974 to 1978 and took a BA in Art History at the University of Essex from 1980 to 1983. In the summer of 1983, he sailed the Atlantic and later that year joined the Maas Gallery which deals in Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite, Romantic and Modern British paintings, watercolours, drawings, reproductive engravings and sculpture. The gallery has also featured the work of a number of contemporary living artists, including Keiron Leach and Julia Sorrell.

In 1993, Maas became full-time director of the Maas Gallery. In 1997, shortly after his father's death, he joined BBC's Antiques Roadshow as a picture specialist. He has appeared regularly on the series and on other television programmes such as Castle in the Country. In 2008, he caused a minor local controversy when, during an episode of Antiques Roadshow, he implied that women from Shropshire had fat ankles.

In December 2015 Maas appeared on the team representing University of Essex on BBC Four's Christmas University Challenge.

Personal life Maas is tall. He lives in Camberwell in south London with his wife Tamar. The couple have been married since 1991 and have three daughters.