 Complete the following phrase:  Chittock studied at the Slade School of Art between 1942 and 1947 under Randolph Schwabe and continued his art education under Philip Connard at the Royal Academy schools. Although still a student at the time, Chittock was commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee to paint two portraits of Admiralty subjects near the end of World War Two. Chittock was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and in the early 1950s was recruited by the Artists International Association to serve on the selection committee for their Artists for Peace exhibitions. Chittock also worked as the art critic for the Daily Worker newspaper. He resigned that post, and his membership of the Communist Party, in 1956 following the 