
Photos: Jack the Ripper’s legacy

Painter Walter Richard Sickert, in a 1911 photograph by George Charles Beresford. Sickert was fascinated with the Jack the Ripper murders and used them to promote his own work.
National Portrait Gallery London
| June 21, 2013

Painter Walter Richard Sickert’s “Putana a Casa.”
Harvard Art Museums
| June 21, 2013

Walter Richard Sickert’s 1914 painting “Ennui.”
Harvard Art Museums
| June 21, 2013

Some see shades of the Ripper’s victims’ faces in some of Sickert’s works. Above: A “Camden Town Murder” print.
Harvard Art Museums
| June 21, 2013