Vettriano finds a home in The Scottish National Portrait Gallery

A self-portrait by Jack Vettriano will feature in a new display at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, which is to re-open this autumn after a major refurbishment.

Titled The Weight, the painting depicts the artist sitting in profile in a darkened interior. It was made in 2010, and has been offered on long-term loan to the Gallery by a UK private collector.

Vettriano was born in Fife in 1951, and has shown his work in galleries around the world, with solo exhibitions in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong and New York.

The £17.6 m project to renovate the SNPG will dramatically increase the amount of exhibition space within the building, and will reinvent the way in which the national collection is displayed, illustrating the richness of Scotland’s culture with a dynamic programme of changing displays.