Walter Sickert: Whitechapel Murderer ?

[Limehouse]

Thanks chaps!

Good evening Mr Sickert, and welcome,

The vast majority of Sickert's work is far from macabre. Have you explored it further than the few mentioned by Ms Cornwell?

Almost the whole of London and most of England was interested in the crimes and it was not just Mr Sickert who represented the killings in his work.

Many, many artists are eccentric - it is what gives them their inspiration and Sickert was painting at a time when art was becoming much more than just portraits and landscapes.

If Ms Cornwell really wanted to prove Sickert was the Ripper, she would have made much more of an effort to determine where he was during the autumn of 1888, or at least at the time when some of the women were killed.

I second Grahams applause. Nicely framed LH.

All the best.

[Graham]

Right on, Limehouse!

Some of Sickert's work was morbid and macabre - he once said that he was influenced by the works of Edgar Allen Poe, and how morbid and macabre is that?

He probably was interested in The Ripper Crimes, probably did write so-called Ripper letter just for jolly, but he was that kind of guy.

And I don't think anyone could be in Dieppe and Whitechapel at the same time...

Cheers,

Graham

[Limehouse]

Good evening Mr Sickert, and welcome,

The vast majority of Sickert's work is far from macabre. Have you explored it further than the few mentioned by Ms Cornwell?

Almost the whole of London and most of England was interested in the crimes and it was not just Mr Sickert who represented the killings in his work.

Many, many artists are eccentric - it is what gives them their inspiration and Sickert was painting at a time when art was becoming much more than just portraits and landscapes.

If Ms Cornwell really wanted to prove Sickert was the Ripper, she would have made much more of an effort to determine where he was during the autumn of 1888, or at least at the time when some of the women were killed.

[JTRSickert]

Hi y'all...new to the forum.

Here's what I think about WS...

In all likelihood, he probably wasn't JTR but there is no denying that he was a very eccentric individual obviously was interested in the crimes, his artwork is certainly macabre-like, and PC may have shown he might've in the very least wrote a Ripper letter ot 2

In short, while I would definitely place Sickert near the bottom of the list of Ripper suspects, I wouldn't srike hm off the list just yet.

[Christine1932]

... "co-signing" a post is better than going off at a tangent

Just adding my opinions.

[The Grave Maurice]

Oh, that was excellent. (None of you can see this, but I just put down my laptop and stood up to applaud.) I'm sorry my last post was so lame. My only excuse is that I was out mowing our lawn this afternoon, and it's very hot here. I was probably dehydrated or something. Anyway, I bow to a master.

[Sam Flynn]

Damn. I was expecting acute comment, Gareth. I was being obtuse, no doubt.

I just didn't want you to feel that I was putting you under the cosh, that's all

[The Grave Maurice]

Damn. I was expecting acute comment, Gareth. I was being obtuse, no doubt.

[The Grave Maurice]

Point taken.

[Sam Flynn]

Har! There's nowt beats a good trigonometry joke.

I try every angle, Mo.

[The Grave Maurice]

Har! There's nowt beats a good trigonometry joke.

[Sam Flynn]

Co-signing the post!

... "co-signing" a post is better than going off at a tangent

[Christine1932]

And Sickertīs art does not prove anything. Stephen Dung... er, King has potty fetish to vilify over-weighed, nerdy, mentally ill etc. but honestly I donīt believe he is Zodiac killer.

[Christine1932]

Never.

What evidence is there that he (or any of the other suspects for that matter) were even in Whitechapel the night of any one of the murders? What evidence is there linking him or any of the suspects to any of the victims in a way that strongly indicates that they killed them? Precisely none. It's all just speculation and theories and the majority of it is weak at best.

If anything, Sickert was probably just a Jacky fanboy of his time. Nothing more.

Co-signing the post!