Burne-Jones

Christopher Wood is England's leading writer and broadcaster on Victorian art. Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, he spent fourteen years working at the London auction house, Christie's, becoming director of nineteenth-century paintings. He started his own gallery, specialising in Pre-Raphaelite and

• A Birmingham youth; Oxford; a pupil of Rossetti; Morris & Co; the aesthetic movement; Italian interlude; the Grosvenor Gallery; the years of fame; the years of influence.