Elspeth Spottiswood 

(Aberdeenshire 1926-2016 Lanreath, Cornwall)

Polperro Harbour, 1951

oil on canvas

signed and dated lower right 'E.F.S. 1951’

40 x 27 cm.

in a period frame

Spottiswood studied at Camberwell & Chelsea Schools of Art after WWII, and was friendly with the artist Oscar Kokoschka at that time. 

In 1949 she married the agriculturalist poet Michael Milburn, and the couple moved to Lanreath in Cornwall.