He may have become Scotland’s most commercially successful artist, best known for his painting The Singing Butler. But in his final years, Jack Vettriano never put paint to canvas, instead ...

His name was perfect. Jack is reassuringly British. Vettriano, a version of his mother’s maiden name, is chic and Italian. The combination was like fish and chips on fine china. It was so much ...

Jack Vettriano, the immensely popular self-taught Neo-Realist artist, who by his own account painted to offer his audience escapism with his nostalgia-fuelled, romantic works, has died aged 73.

Vettriano, who was born Jack Hoggan, in Methil, Fife, was found on Saturday in his apartment in Nice, his publicist said. It is understood there are no suspicious circumstances around his death.