Jack Vettriano (birth name Jack Hoggan) was born in Fife, Scotland in 1951. But unlike many gifted artists who start painting while very young, Vettriano only began teaching himself to paint after a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolor paints for his 21st birthday.
In 1989, at the age of 38, he felt ready to display his paintings in public and submitted two works to the Royal Scottish Academy’s annual exhibition. Both were accepted and sold immediately, after which the artist was approached by several galleries keen sell his work.
In 2004 The Singing Butler, Vettriano’s best known painting, was sold at Sotheby’s for close to £750,000. In the same year he was awarded an OBE for Services to the Visual Arts.
Although his work is often disparaged by art critics as lacking in imagination, Vettriano is one of the most commercially successful living artists. While his original paintings regularly fetch six figure prices, it is rumored he earns more from the sale of reproductions.
And that’s fortunate for art enthusiasts who enjoy his work as Jack Vettriano Prints are now readily available and affordable for those who can’t afford to pay out huge sumes of cash for originals.
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