Pictures...Sickert

In recent years, Sickert's name has been connected with Jack the Ripper. Sickert himself was interested in the crime and believed that he had lodged in the room used by the infamous serial killer having been told this by his landlady, who suspected a previous lodger. He painted the room, entitling it "Jack the Ripper's bedroom," portraying it as a dark, brooding, almost unintelligible space. (on the right hand side)

Most of Sickerts painting we're of naked women (example on the left hand side)

Cornwell tried to make a link between Walter Sickert and one or two "Ripper letters" in the guise of a matching mtDNA sequence. She was clearly just trying to find anything to make her book plausible.

Sickert was fluent in German, English, French, and Italian. He knew Latin well enough to teach it to friends.