Born Jack Hoggan in Fife, Scotland, Jack Vettriano left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer.
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.
For biographical notes -in english and italian- see:
Other from Jack Vettriano:
- Jack Vettriano / Leonard Cohen | Dance me to the end of love🎨
- Jack Vettriano ~ Lovers and Others Strangers | VideoArt🎨
- Jack Vettriano, 1951 ~ Lovers and Others Strangers🎨
- Jack Vettriano, 1951 | Realist / Figurative / Genre painter | Part. 2🎨
- Jack Vettriano, 1951 | Love Story🎨
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