Cornwell Gives Harvard $1M For Art Conservation Science

“Patricia Cornwell, author of the best-selling ‘Scarpetta’ thrillers, will establish a conservation scientist position at Harvard to further close examinations of art materials.” The university’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies helped Cornwell with research on her 2002 book, “Portrait of a Killer,” in which she argued that painter Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper.