Sickert and the Ripper crimes: An investigation into the relationship between the Whitechapel murders of 1888 and the English tonal painter Walter Richard Sickert

In the autumn of 1888 London women lived under the shadow of the Ripper murders - killings perhaps unmatched in their sadistic brutality. Sickert & the Ripper Crimes derives from the unsuspected testimony of the woman who had particular reason to fear for her life. In the autumn of 1888 London women lived under the shadow of the Ripper murders - killings perhaps unmatched in their sadistic brutality. Sickert & the Ripper Crimes derives from the unsuspected testimony of the woman who had particular reason to fear for her life. Florence Pash, friend and colleague of the artist Walter Sickert and herself an artist, confided to the author's mother when in her late eighties, a terrible story that she had kept even from those closest to her. She and Sickert had both known Mary Kelly, the last woman to be brutally murdered by the Ripper - and Sickert had warned her that, because she knew what Mary Kelly knew, she could become, if she ever began to talk, the Ripper's next victim. Sickert told Florence that he was painting into his pictures clues to the murders as he wished people to know the truth after his death. Jean Overton Fuller using her artist's eye, has picked them out and read the riddle.