{"id":449496,"date":"2026-02-28T02:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449496\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T02:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:08:07","slug":"self-portrait-of-jack-vettriano-to-go-on-display-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449496\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-portrait of Jack Vettriano to go on display in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vettriano staged scenes using models and photographed them before painting, with his work often evoking the mood and style of the 1940s and 1950s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His paintings became known for their storytelling qualities, exploring themes of romance, glamour, love and betrayal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His breakthrough came in 1988 when two paintings submitted to the annual exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy sold on the first day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vettriano was soon offered gallery representation and held his first solo exhibition in Edinburgh in 1992, before gaining international recognition through shows in London, Hong Kong, Johannesburg and New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vettriano staged scenes using models and photographed them before painting, with his work often evoking the mood and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-449496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}