I saw a documentary on youtube about this fellow recently

[Grim]

I must say the paintings he drew were very sick. No wonder people thought him to be the ripper.

[George Hutchinson]

Francis Bacon?

PHILIP

[Sam Flynn]

Francis Bacon?

... a rasher suspect suggestion I've yet to see

[miss marple]

How about Goya, Grim? I cannot recall any mutilated corpses in Sickert, just rather sad and troubled people. Now if you want sick, Goya's etchings will do nicely, oh dear but he can't be the ripper, wrong period , wrong country. Not that improbability ever stops anyone from coming up with crazy theories.
Miss Marple

[Robert]

One or two of Hogarth's were a bit strong, weren't they?

[Suzi]

Hogarth!!!!........ slightly delicious though 'eh- some seriously naughty stuff

Wanna be a Rake me! xx

[Sam Flynn]

Hogarth!!!!........ slightly delicious though 'eh- some seriously naughty stuff

Wanna be a Rake me! xx

Me too, Suzi. Rather a rake than a hoe

[Shelley]

One of Sickert's paintings are in a Gallery at Bath, i can't remember if it was a violet or an iris now. Which ever, it was a small oil painting, with simplicity.

[Graham]

One of Sickert's paintings are in a Gallery at Bath, i can't remember if it was a violet or an iris now. Which ever, it was a small oil painting, with simplicity.

Shouldn't that read: some of Sickert's paintings is in a Gallery at Bath?

I wish I had just one of his paintings hanging on my wall. I could be horrible and say that it would cover that nasty damp patch, but I happen to very much like Sickert. The Ripper he was not.

Cheers,

Graham

[George Hutchinson]

I've got some pencil cartoon sketches purporting to have been done by Sickert. If I can find the bleedin' thing I'll post it up to get some opinions.

PHILIP

[Steelysama]

From what I have read about Sickert's life, he was a horrible man. He was most likely not the Ripper. However, he certainly lived a despicable life including rampant adultery. It is not surprising that his paintings were strange and disturbing in nature.

[Limehouse]

The vast majority of Sickert's paintings are not at all nasty or disturbing. In my opinion, many of them reveal a great degree of sensitivity and atmosphere.

[JuliaH]

Hello from an old sometime visitor who got kicked out during the crash of 08, or 09...!

Just want to throw in my 2cents and say that I think too much is read into there being some kind of resemblence between his paintings and the angle of Mary Kelly's body or whatever the theory is. It reminds me of the belief that Man Ray killed Elizabeth Short (Black Dahlia) because her body was positioned in a way that looked like one of his photographs. Hogwash!

[Graham]

From what I have read about Sickert's life, he was a horrible man. He was most likely not the Ripper. However, he certainly lived a despicable life including rampant adultery. It is not surprising that his paintings were strange and disturbing in nature.

I have just the faintest, slightest impression that the only book you have ever read about Sickert was written by a person called Cornwell. Am I right?

Graham

[Steelysama]

I have just the faintest, slightest impression that the only book you have ever read about Sickert was written by a person called Cornwell. Am I right?

Graham

Completely wrong actually.

I read this, by Stephen Ryder:

http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/dst-pamandsickert.html

, a close friend, Jacques-Emile Blanche described Sickert in 1902 as an "immoralist... with a swarm of children of provenances which are not possible to count." Sickert was known to have had several mistresses, and was cited as being an adulterer by his first wife.

It certainly does not sound at all like he was a good man.