Editing Walter Sickert (section)

==Jack the Ripper==
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[[File:Walter Sickert - Jack the Ripper's Bedroom.jpg|thumb|''[[Jack the Ripper's Bedroom]]'', {{circa|1907}}]]
[[File:The Camden Town Murder, or, What Shall We Do for the Rent?.jpg|thumb|left|Walter Sickert, ''[[The Camden Town Murder]]'', originally titled, ''What Shall We Do for the Rent?'',<ref name=janus>[[Waldemar Januszczak|Januszczak, Waldemar]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110616053100/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article2785444.ece "Walter Sickert - murderous monster or sly self-promoter?"] ''[[The Times]]'', 4 November 2007. Retrieved 13 September 2008.</ref> alternatively, ''What Shall We Do to Pay the Rent'',<ref>[http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/fisher/detail.html?id=FISHER_n2006090015 "The Camden Town Murder"], Fisher Fine Arts Library Image Collection. Retrieved 13 September 2008.</ref> 1908]]
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Sickert took a keen interest in the crimes of [[Jack the Ripper]] and believed he had lodged in a room used by the notorious [[serial killer]]. He had been told this by his landlady, who suspected a previous lodger who stayed there in 1881. Sickert did a painting of the room in 1905–1907 and titled it ''[[Jack the Ripper's Bedroom]]'' ([[Manchester Art Gallery]]). It shows a dark, melancholy room with most details obscured.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/search-the-collection/display.php?EMUSESSID=0dda029b93c619fcb42ba5d6d3b09920&irn=8432 |title=Manchestergalleries.org |publisher=Manchestergalleries.org |date=7 July 2006 |access-date=19 January 2014}}</ref> It suggests his morbid interest in the subject.

Although for over 80 years there was no mention of Sickert being a suspect in the Ripper crimes, in the 1970s authors began to explore the idea that Sickert was Jack the Ripper or his accomplice. Sickert is not considered a serious suspect by most who study the case, and strong evidence shows he spent most of 1888 outside the UK,<ref name="Jones2021" /> and was in France at the time of most of the Ripper murders.<ref>Baron, Wendy (September 2004). [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36083 "Sickert, Walter Richard (1860–1942)"]. ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]''. Accessed 18&nbsp;June 2008. (Subscription required)</ref><ref name="CJTR1">
{{cite web
 | last = Ryder
 | first = Stephen P.
 | title = Patricia Cornwell and Walter Sickert: A Primer
 | publisher = [[Casebook: Jack the Ripper]]
 | url = http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/dst-pamandsickert.html
 | access-date =10 March 2008}}</ref><ref>Sturgis, Matthew (3&nbsp;November 2002). "Making a killing from the Ripper". ''[[The Sunday Times]]''</ref>