Word: sickerts
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Cornwell worked with conservators at the Fogg after the publication of her 2002 book “Portrait of a Killer,” which identified Sickert as the Whitechapel murderer. She traveled to London with Fogg scientists, who assisted the author as she compared Sickert’s correspondence to letters allegedly written by Jack the Ripper...
Cornwell added that Sickert was “in the right place at the right time for these murders to have occurred,” and that he had a strange fascination with Jack the Ripper. At one point, he created a painting in which the murderer appeared in front of a backdrop of Sickert’s own bedroom...
...everyone is convinced. Sickert’s biographer, Matthew Sturgis, has called Cornwell’s thesis “pure fiction.” He has mustered evidence to show that Sickert was probably in France—far away from the crime scene—during the murder spree...
...works on paper by Sickert will be available by appointment at the Fogg’s Agnes Mongan Center, but that there are currently no plans to exhibit the works. However, one painting by Sickert–“Portrait of Thérèse Lessore”–is currently on display in the Fogg...
...gives the works by Sickert to Harvard, Cornwell isn’t giving up in her bid to establish a link between the artist and the killer. She hopes that DNA testing will provide her with further evidence to support her theory. “This isn’t over with yet,” she said...