Jack Knox obituary

Painter who characterised an artistic style particular to ScotlandIn the mid-1970s, the Scottish artist Jack Knox began a series of paintings based on still lifes he had seen on a trip to Holland. These works did not hide their provenance: one, dated 1977 and now in the collection of the Royal Scottish Academy, was called Snack in a Dutch Museum; another, from the following year, was Buffet in a Dutch Museum.As you might expect, the second is on a more ambitious scale than the first. In the cent