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Last Updated: Friday, 29 October, 2004, 10:09 GMT 11:09 UK
Jack Vettriano
Jack Vettriano
Vettriano: self taught
He's a former miner and a self-taught artist, but Jack Vettriano's paintings are some of the most popular in the country.

His beach-side scenes are reminiscent of the thirties and forties - men in grey suits dancing with women in floaty dresses.

And his best known painting, The Singing Butler, sold for nearly �750,000 earlier this year.

  • This morning, Jack Vettriano came in to the Breakfast studio, to discuss his work

  • Jack Vettriano, by Jack Vettriano and Anthony Quinn, is published on October 2004, by Pavillion, ISBN: 1862056463

  • BBC NEWS: VIDEO AND AUDIO
    Jack Vettriano
    The Scottish artist talks to Simon McCoy and Jane Hill



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