Camden Town Murder
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The Camden Town murder was a murder which took place in Camden Town, London, England, in 1907. Robert Wood, an artist, was tried for the murder of sex worker Emily Dimmock and acquitted after a defenc
Robert Wood
Emily Dimmock
Walter Sickert
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Walter Richard Sickert was a German-born British painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London. He was an important influe
Camden Town Murder
…take mid-summing up, and made it clear he thought the jury should acquit. They did, after retiring for 15 minutes between 7:45 and 8:00 pm. The artist Walter Sickert adopted the phrase The Camden Town Murder for a series of etchings, paintings and drawings in 1908–09, in each of which the subjects are a clothed man…
Portrait by George Charles Beresford, 1911
Portrait of Sickert in 1884
La Giuseppina, the Ring (1903–1905)
The Basket Shop, Rue St Jean, Dieppe (c. 1911–1912), Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums