An unsettling painting by a Victorian artist who some experts believe was notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper has sold for £14,000.
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.
The creepy artwork shows figures walking along a street whilst shielding themselves from the rain with umbrellas – and appears to be from the perspective of someone lurking in the shadows.
Sickert, who died