But in his final years, Jack Vettriano never put paint to canvas ... The 52-year-old, who struck up a friendship with Vettriano, after a chance meeting in Edinburgh several years ago, said ...

Scottish artist Jack Vettriano has been found dead in ... are no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death. Vettriano left school at 15 to become a mining engineer but took up painting after a ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — Scottish painter Jack Vettriano ... waste to the composition to send an environmental message. Vettriano left school at 15 to become a mining engineer but took up painting after a ...

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 ...

Banksy’s reimagining of a famous work by the late Scottish painter Jack Vettriano has sold at ... came just days after Vettriano was found dead aged 73 at his apartment in Nice, France.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scottish artist Jack Vettriano has been ... surrounding his death. Vettriano left school at 15 to become a mining engineer but took up painting after a girlfriend gave him a box of watercolours ...