This Day in History: Renowned Impressionist/Modernist artist Walter Sickert was born on this day in 1860.
"The name of Walter Sickert has been linked to the Jack the Ripper murders by several authors and, over the years, his role in the killings has been said to have varied enormously.
According to some authors he was an accomplice in the Whitechapel Murders, whilst others have depicted him as knowing who was responsible for the crimes and duly informing on them.
But, according to the crime novelist Patricia Cornwell in her 2002 book Portrait of a Killer - Jack the Ripper - Case Closed, Sickert was in fact the man who carried out the crimes that became known as the Jack the Ripper Murders." Source
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