Following the sad announcement of Jack Vettriano's death ... having taken up the art form after his girlfriend gave him a box of watercolours for his 21st birthday. The son of a miner drew ...

Self-taught Scottish painter Jack Vettriano has been found dead at his ... but had his artwork rejected after he applied to study fine art at the University of Edinburgh. His breakthrough came ...

The occasion was the death of Jack Vettriano ... If I didn’t loathe Vettriano’s work before I certainly did after that experience. Yet to say so was to be accused of being “snooty ...

Jack Vettriano, a onetime coal mine apprentice who taught himself to paint and became one of Britain’s most commercially successful artists with works such as “The Singing Butler” that ...

The body of the painter, born Jack ... after the demise of 'a very destructive relationship in London', saying: 'It cost me emotionally and financially. Everything got completely out of hand ...

The painter Jack Vettriano has died at the age of 73 ... but it was only in 1987 at the age of 36, after he left his wife, ...

TRIBUTES were last night paid to Scots artist Jack Vettriano after he died at 73. Critics loathed the creator of The Singing Butler but a pal said: “He was the people’s painter.” The Singing ...

FILE - Scottish artist Jack Vettriano holds ... send an environmental message. Vettriano left school at 15 to become a mining engineer but took up painting after a girlfriend gave him a box ...

Vettriano was born Jack Hoggan in 1951 and was raised in Methil, Fife. Tributes have been paid to the artist after the news of his passing. Scottish First Minister John Swinney said ...

By Sopan Deb Jack Vettriano, a self-taught Scottish ... “The Singing Butler” was one of the first paintings Mr. Vettriano sold after he became a professional artist. In 1992, it sold ...

Read full article: A man was hit by a car while trying to run away after deputies said he robbed a woman at gunpoint. LONDON – Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, known for his works depicting ...