Highly accomplished oil on board, signed with the artist's intials (25cm x 20cm). Michael Whittlesea (born 1938) is a member of the Royal Watercolour Society. He attended Harrow School of Art and has exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions and with the New English Art Club and the Sunday Times watercolour exhibition. His still life "The Blue Vase" was sold for over £1000 at Christies in 2008 and many other works have appeared in galleries throughout the country and abroad.