One of the most important Scottish contemporary artists of his generation, John Bellany has died age 71. Bellany was born in Port Seton in East Lothian in 1942. He studied at the Edinburgh College of Art and then at the Royal College of Art, London. He was recognised internationally for his figurative, landscape and still lifes. Bellany was elected a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1988, a Royal Academician in 1991, and awarded a CBE in 1994. His work has been the subject of numerous articles and documentaries and can be seen in public collections in Britain and the USA.