Jonty Claypole

I think it's chocolate box kitsch.

And just when the French are limbering up for the brilliance of Impressionism, this movement of English blokey men...

steer off into the cul-de-sac of this very quaint, bizarre medievalism.

And I think the reason why their work is so famous is a consequence of cultural imperialism.

That cities in the colonies, like Sydney, were eager out of cultural cringe to have access to British painting and were buying up this stuff in quantities.

And if you go to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, there's a huge room full of the stuff.

They're deeply sexist.

It's a brotherhood.

And so Christina, who is very much there alongside them, the brotherhood used to meet in Rosetti's house and they would all stomp past Christina, who was sitting in the drawing room, and march upstairs and ignore her.

But Rosetti used her as a model.

She appears, Christina...

Rossetti in a number of her brother's paintings, generally playing the Virgin Mary.

And she's writing poetry as well for their magazine, The Germ.

But they won't let her join because she's not a brother.

But she is the kind of eighth member, I would say.

And I was looking for a comparison for this.

And eventually I hit upon the perfect one.

Which is, if you remember the early seasons of the A-Team in the 80s, remember with Mr. T, B.A.

Baracus, Hannibal, Face, Murdoch, there was a woman who was the unofficial member and she was called Amy Allen.

She was a journalist and she was there in the early episodes.