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14 April 2008updated 27 Sep 2015 5:20am

King Arthur comes home

How a key Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painting by Edward Burne-Jones ended up on a Caribbean island

By Celia Quartermain

Name any major artist you can think of and the chances are their work is spread across the globe.

But the curious story of how the final and, arguably, greatest work by Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones found itself in an obscure Caribbean art gallery enticed me to visit Puerto Rico to find out more and to make a documentary about it for Radio 4.

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