The oil on canvas work, painted by Russian artist Valeriy Gridnev over the course of six months, features Sir Michael in a sitting position looking directly out at the viewer.
Mr Gridnev, who moved to the UK in 1999 and who is part of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters based in London, said that Sir Michael was a ‘model subject’ and that it was an ‘honour’ to paint him during sessions which lasted up to three hours.
Full report in Thursday’s JEP
