Jack Freud. No other details were made public. The Scottish-born Mr. Vettriano was in his early 20s when he first picked up an artist’s brush and developed his style by obsessively copying from ...

Jack Vettriano never made any bones about what it was that inspired him as an artist. ‘I want to paint ... paintings – the big beehive hair, the red lipstick, the cigarettes, the stockings ...

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 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 ...

Recommended Videos Vettriano, born Jack Hoggan in Fife, Scotland on Nov. 17, 1951, was a self-taught artist who created some of the world's most recognizable contemporary paintings. His 1992 ...

Mr. Vettriano did not intend to become an artist. Born Jack Hoggan in the eastern county of Fife, Scotland, on Nov. 17, 1951, Mr. Vettriano left school at around 16 to follow in his father’s ...