Walter Sickert was the bad boy of art in his day, and one of my favourite artists of the late 19th century. He was unusual in depicting scenes of working-class life in Victorian and Edwardian London. Sickert always had one eye on the press and picked up on stories that caught the popular imagination. In 1907 a woman was found murdered in a rented room in an area of London called Camden. The newspapers at this time went crazy about this story and it inspired a series of paintings from Sickert, which he called The Camden Town Murder.