Jack Vettriano

Jack Vettriano (1951) is a scottish artist. As at his twenty-first birthday a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolour paints decided to teach himself to paint. In 1989 he submitted two paintings to the Royal Scottish Academy's annual exhibition. Both were accepted and sold on the first day. Over the last twenty years, interest in Vettriano's work has grown consistently. 2004 his best known painting, The Singing Butler was sold at Sotheby's for close to £750,000.