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Jack Vettriano Born in Scotland in 1951, Jack left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer in the local coalfields. For his twenty-first birthday a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolour paints and from then on he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint. The local art gallery, The Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery, with its renowned collection of 19th and 20th century Scottish paintings, was particularly inspirational. In 1990 an enthusiastic reaction greeted the three paintings which he entered for the prestigious Summer Exhibition at London's Royal Academy. Aside from his exhibitions, Jack has acquired a vast following of fans through the posters and prints of his paintings that are distributed worldwide. The original of his work 'The Singing Butler' fetched nearly £ 750,000 in April 2004. |
