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The well-known painter is celebrated for his works of ballerinas, bathing females and prostitutes. Kiki Schirr says the artist's subject-matter says more about him than was previously understood.
Respected businessman Henry Wainwright killed his lover Harriet Lane (above) in 1874 after racking up debt and realising he was unable to support her financially.
Historian Rod Beattie believes Bowden Endacott, a Met police officer who would have been patrolling the streets of London's Whitechapel, was responsible for the notorious murders.
Police researchers have rediscovered a walking stick, carved with the face of the man believed to have mutilated and killed five women in Whitechapel, London in 1888.
Walter Sickert's 'Figures in the Rain' went for more than double its upper sale estimate of £6,000 at an Oxford auction house on Wednesday.