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Jack Vettriano was born in Fife, Scotland in 1951. After leaving school at 15, he followed his father down the mine, working as an apprentice engineer. He later moved on to white-collar jobs in management services.

There is a refreshing honesty about Vettriano, a former miner who was given his first set of paints by a girlfriend on his 21st birthday and through dogged determination taught himself to conjure up works that have both shocked and delighted the world.

Jack Vettriano’s Days of Wine and Roses exhibition had a distinctly continental feel featuring paintings inspired by his visits to Milan and the French Riviera alongside some of his signature darker interiors.

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Here we feature a small selection of the 101 paintings ranging in date from 1992 to 2012 that are featured in the Retrospective exhibition and which include all of Vettriano’s most famous works gathered in from private collections around the world for the first time.

Jack Vettriano OBE (b.1951) Bluebird at Bonneville Oil on canvas 24 x 40 inches Signed, painted 1995. Private Collection, UK. This is one of seven paintings inspired by the life and achievements of Sir Malcolm Campbell, who gained the world land speed record at various times during the 1920’s and 1930’s.

Jack Vettriano OBE (b.1951) Birth Of A Dream Oil on canvas 20 x 20 inches Signed, Painted 1995. Private Collection, UK. This is one of seven paintings inspired by the life and achievements of Sir Malcolm Campbell, who gained the world land speed record at various times during the 1920’s and 1930’s.

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‘Love, Devotion and Surrender’ exhibition opened in April 2006 and it was Vettriano’s tenth and final exhibition with Portland Gallery in London.