H is name was perfect. Jack is reassuringly British. Vettriano, a version of his mother’s maiden name, is chic and Italian.

Critics largely rejected his work, but when it was last sold in 2004, “The Singing Butler” was the most valuable piece of art ...

LONDON — Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, known for his works depicting elegant men and women on dreamlike beaches, has been found dead in his apartment in France, his publicist said Monday. He was 73 ...

Jack Vettriano, the self-taught Scottish painter best known for the work "The Singing Butler", has died aged 73, his publicist said on Monday.

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, 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.

But in his final years, Jack Vettriano never put paint to canvas, instead favouring drink and cigarettes as he struggled to cope with criticism of his work. One of his closest friends Remi Akande ...

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 ...

Jack Vettriano, an artist best known for his 1992 work 'The Singing Butler' has been found dead at his flat in the southern French city of Nice. His publicist has confirmed that the Scotsman's ...

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 ...

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 ...