Painter, notably of portraits, whose work contained a strong element of Socialist Realism, art critic and historian, who studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1942–7, under Randolph Schwabe, and at the Royal Academy Schools under Philip Connard. Exhibited at RA, RP, RBA and NEAC. At the end of World War II Chittock did portrait work for the War Artists’ Advisory Committee. In the early 1950s he was one of the artists recruited from the AIA to form a selection committee for the Artists for Peace Exhibitions. Chittock was a paid-up member of the British Communist Party until the Hungarian uprising in 1956 prompted his resignation, and he also was art critic of the Daily Worker. He completed covers for the magazine John Bull, ranging from the Test Match to London buses, and sometimes used the name James Dudley.