{"id":497396,"date":"2026-05-12T16:01:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/numero.com\/non-classifiee-2\/is-painter-walter-sickert-really-jack-the-ripper-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:03:08","slug":"painter-walter-sickert-jack-the-ripper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/numero.com\/en\/art-design\/art-en\/painter-walter-sickert-jack-the-ripper\/","title":{"rendered":"Is British painter Walter Sickert really Jack the Ripper?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a21481cbe3ce&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a21481cbe3ce\" class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large size-medium-large wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"999\" height=\"1238\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/numero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/jack-l-eventreur-chambre-peinture-walter-sickert-numero-magazine-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-497390\"\/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.thisImage.buttonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.thisImage.buttonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Jack The Ripper&#8217;s Bedroom <\/em>(ca. 1907) by Walter Sickert. Oil on canvas, Manchester City Art Galleries.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in Munich in 1860, <strong>Walter Sickert<\/strong> travelled all over Europe following his pictorial affinities before his death 82 years later. He began his career in the American painter <strong>James Whistler<\/strong>\u2019s studio in London, before moving to France. There, he met the artistic avant-garde of the late 19th\u00a0century, including <strong>Edgar Degas<\/strong>, <strong>Gustave Courbet<\/strong>, and<strong> \u00c9douard Manet<\/strong>, among others. From the latter, he kept a frank and realistic line and took the opposite view from the English painters at that time by representing popular leisure places or prostitutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those three artists would eventually fuel the suspicion that the painter was indeed <strong>Jack the Ripper<\/strong>. <strong>Walter Sickert<\/strong> was 28 years old in 1888 when the notorious serial killer was rampaging in the working-class district of Whitechapel in London. He used to target easy prey, slitting their throats, and slashing their stomachs before leaving their bloody corpses in the street or on their own beds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">They may have shared the same flat&#8230; and the same DNA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1907, British art lovers were stunned to discover\u00a0<em>Jack the Ripper&#8217;s Bedroom<\/em>, a\u00a0dark canvas picturing a black silhouette dimly lit by a few rays of light filtering through the shutters. The painting, whose title and color palette are enough to give you goosebumps, was signed by <strong>Walter Sickert<\/strong>. The artist would have drawn his inspiration from his own bedroom. In the early 1900s, he moved to the working-class district of Camden Town in London, where he found his favorite subjects, starting with the many crimes that occurred there. Among these crimes is the murder of a certain <strong>Emily Dimmock<\/strong>, a prostitute whose throat was found slit from one ear to the other a few blocks away from his studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The case resurrected memories of <strong>Jack the Ripper <\/strong>throughout the British capital and inspired the artist to create this painting in and from his own bedroom in Camden. According to rumors spread by the caretaker of his building, that room also belonged to the infamous serial killer who struck twenty years earlier\u2026 The reason for her suspicions? The restless behavior of her previous tenant at the time of the murders in 1888. Apparently, his unexpected departure perfectly coincides with the end of the murders. The room, the painter, Emily Dimmock&#8217;s recent gruesome murder\u2026 It\u00a0didn\u2019t take long before gossips and fantasies went wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A century later, this theory has been confirmed by the American novelist <strong>Patricia Cornwell<\/strong> in two books published in 2002 and 2017. After an investigation that cost the author several million dollars according to her, the comparative analysis of Walter Sickert\u2019s paintings and Jack the Ripper\u2019s handwritten letters revealed a match in their DNA. It also allowed this criminology-loving author to discover that, in addition to their DNA or their flat, the two men also shared the same stationery and the same nickname \u201cNemo\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a21481cbe913&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a21481cbe913\" class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large size-medium-large wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1694\" height=\"1342\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/numero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/nu-jack-l-eventreur-camden-town-peinture-walter-sickert-numero-magazine_0-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-497392\"\/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.thisImage.buttonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.thisImage.buttonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Iron Bedstead <\/em>(ca. 1906) by Walter Richard Sickert. Oil on canvas, private collection, courtesy Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert. \u00a9 Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">His nude paintings terrified England<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With their French and Italian influences, <strong>Walter Sickert<\/strong>\u2019s paintings stand out among those of his British contemporaries. As the leader of the<strong> Camden Town Group<\/strong> in the early 1900s \u2013 a group of painters inspired by the London area and who lived there \u2013 he defended an aesthetic that staged ordinary people and everyday scenes with realistic tones and strokes. Thus, at a time when painting was struggling to break free from the classical and academic shackles in England, Sickert\u2019s paintings used to shock the viewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leaving his brushstrokes visible on the canvas, he did not hesitate to depict with dull colors the drunken audience of music halls or naked prostitutes in bed, like his series<em>\u00a0The Camden Town Nudes<\/em>, in which he included the painting\u00a0<em>The Camden Town Murder, <\/em>directly inspired by Emily Crook&#8217;s murder. Immersed in dark atmospheres, deprived of any eroticism, his nudes are raw, and his models seem almost dead \u2013 so much so that the black lines\u00a0delimiting the limbs are even compared to cuts&#8230; In each one of the paintings from this series, the faces fade away while the close-up associated with the strong brushstrokes accentuate the violence of the scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His morbid fascination had often been criticized, and the painter courageously defended it during a lecture at the Thanet School of Art in 1934. His shattering statement on the platform that <em>\u201cmurder is as good a subject as any other\u201d <\/em>would eventually be a godsend to budding detectives and further fueled suspicion of his guilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a21481cbed96&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a21481cbed96\" class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large size-medium-large wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1584\" height=\"2055\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/numero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/walter-sickert-autoportrait-jack-l-eventreur-exposition-petit-palais-numero-magazine-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-497394\"\/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.thisImage.buttonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.thisImage.buttonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Self-portrait <\/em>(ca. 1896) by Walter Richard Sickert. Oil on canvas, Leeds, Leeds City Art Gallery. \u00a9 Leeds Museums and Galleries (Leeds Art Gallery), UK \/ Bridgeman Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The perfect culprit?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Were the naked women in <strong>Sickert<\/strong>\u2019s paintings really dead? Or worse, did he kill them?\u00a0Raised by his paintings and his passion for crime stories, these suspicions have survived the painter\u2019s death in 1942. His work remains unfamiliar to this day, except for his alleged links with the notorious serial killer of the late 19th\u00a0century. While he was the object of a few accusations during his lifetime, his death unleashed a series of publications that directly implicated him in those crimes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In\u00a0<em>Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution,\u00a0<\/em>published in 1976, <strong>Stephen Knight<\/strong> portrayed him as an accomplice to the murders. In <strong>Jean Overton Fuller<\/strong>\u2019s 1990 publication<em>\u00a0Sickert and the Ripper Crimes, <\/em>he is painted as the actual murderer. These publications are mostly fiction and <strong>Patricia Cornwell<\/strong>&#8216;s arguments have since been refuted by specialists of the case. Firstly, Sickert was living in Dieppe, France, when the murders took place in 1888. Secondly, the several hundred letters signed by the murderer and\u00a0sent to the police and newspapers at the time may mostly be hoaxes. Finally, and most importantly, the DNA screening carried out by Patricia Cornwell could, according to many scientists, be as much a match for the painter as for more than 400,000 people&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A gray area that keeps intriguing lovers of the unsolved case of Jack the Ripper. Today, nearly 200 people are still suspects. Although he has never been questioned by <strong>Scotland Yard <\/strong>agents, <strong>Walter Sickert <\/strong>remains one of them. The themes and the titles of his paintings firmly place him in the foggy and dangerous London of the late 19th\u00a0and early 20th\u00a0centuries, to the point of making him an ideal suspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Translation by Emma Naroumbo Armaing<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Munich in 1860, Walter Sickert travelled all over Europe following his pictorial affinities [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/numero.com\/en\/art-design\/art-en\/painter-walter-sickert-jack-the-ripper\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Is British painter Walter Sickert really Jack the 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