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...method they used included looking at the similarities in the inks and papers used by Sickert and people who claimed to be Jack the Ripper...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Novelist Funds Scientist Position | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...million gift is not the novelist’s first contribution to the University. She previously donated art related to her controversial belief that a well-known Impressionist painter, Walter Sickert, was the 19th-century killer Jack the Ripper...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Novelist Funds Scientist Position | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...Cornwell departed from her usual fiction writing to advance this argument in her book “Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper-Case Closed.” She used forensic research techniques to argue that Sickert, an English painter, was, in fact, the serial killer...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Novelist Funds Scientist Position | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...looked at 400 Jack the Ripper letters in the National Archive in London. Cornwell was trying to confirm that most of these letters were by Walter Sickert,” Driesse said...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Novelist Funds Scientist Position | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

Cornwell recently donated more than 50 works of art by Sickert to the Harvard Art Museum. “She would say that these are Jack the Ripper paintings,” said Henry Lie, director of conservation at the Harvard Art Museum...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Novelist Funds Scientist Position | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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