Christiana Payne is Professor Emerita of History of Art at Oxford Brookes University. She has published widely on British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries including on Samuel Palmer and William Blake. Her books include Toil and Plenty: Images of the Agricultural Landscape in England 1780-1890 (Yale University Press, 1993), Where the Sea meets the Land: Artists on the Coast in Nineteenth-century Britain (Sansom and Company, 2007), John Brett, Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter (Yale University Press, 2010) and Silent Witnesses: Trees in British Art, 1760-1870 (Sansom and Company, 2017).