Critics largely rejected his work, but when it was last sold in 2004, “The Singing Butler” was the most valuable piece of art to ever emerge from Scotland.

The publicist for Scottish painter Jack Vettriano says he has been found dead in his apartment in France. He was 73.

Jack Vettriano, the virally popular Scottish painter whose death, at the age of 73, was announced on March 3, wasn’t a great artist, in the sense that one day we will see a retrospective of his work at the Tate.