| Jack the Ripper's Bedroom | |
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| Artist | Walter Sickert |
| Year | c.1906-1907 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Movement | Impressionism |
| Subject | The bedroom of serial killer Jack the Ripper |
| Dimensions | 50.8 cm × 40.7 cm (20.0 in × 16.0 in) |
| Location | Manchester Art Gallery |
Jack the Ripper's Bedroom is an oil on canvas painting by German-born British artist Walter Sickert, painted from c. 1906 to 1907. It depicts the darkly lit bedroom of Jack the Ripper, the culprit of at least five of London's Whitechapel murders in 1888.
The model bedroom was actually Sickert's own bedroom in his flat at 6 Mornington Crescent in London; the landlady of the flat told Sickert she believed the bedroom had belonged to the Ripper in 1888. Discussion of the piece is tied to controversial theories about Sickert as a possible culprit or associate of Jack the Ripper, which started in the 1970s after the release of Stephen Knight's book Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution. The painting has mostly stayed in the Manchester Art Gallery since 1980.