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.

My cocaine habit got completely out of hand: As Jack Vettriano opens a new show, he reveals how drink and drugs nearly destroyed him His works garnered international acclaim, leading to ...

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 ...

Jack Vettriano never made any bones about what it was that inspired him as an artist. ‘I want to paint attractive women, I don’t give a damn about the men,’ he once told me. ‘I will spend ...

Vettriano was born Jack Hoggan on 17 November 1951 in Methil, Fife. He left school at the age of 15 to become a mining engineer but took up painting after a girlfriend gifted him a box of ...

By Sopan Deb Jack Vettriano, a self-taught Scottish painter who was best known for “The Singing Butler” and who overcame critical derision to become one of the best selling painters in Europe ...

Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, best known for his painting The Singing Butler, has died at the age of 73. His publicist said the artist was found dead at his apartment in Nice, in the south of ...

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 ...

Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, best known for his painting The Singing Butler, has died at the age of 73. His publicist said the artist was found dead at his apartment in Nice, in the south of ...

Renowned Scottish painter Jack Vettriano has died at the age of 73, his publicist has said. The artist was found dead at his apartment in Nice, in the south of France, on Saturday. It is understood ...