Scottish painter Jack Vettriano made this year’s list of “most powerful” people in the art world. But “Vettriano, a former miner whose popular paintings have earned record-breaking prices at auction in recent years, is given a sarcastically critical entry which begins by claiming the 53-year-old first made his living by ‘copying Old Masters’ and ends by noting that no major public gallery had so far chosen to invest in his work, ‘thank Heaven’.”