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The Cigarette (Jeanne Daurmont) by Walter Sickert, 1906
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
He spent his career on music halls and rented rooms rather than polite society portraits, and the sitter here was apparently a young Belgian woman he painted more than once around that time. There's also a small industry of writers who've tried to pin the Whitechapel murders on him — nothing proved, but the story trails his name around.