LOVE TRAGEDY
GIFTED PAINTER’S END
PASSION FOR A MODEL
United Preßs Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright (Australian Press Association)
(Received 9th January, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, Bth January.
Newspapers are giving prominence to the love tragedy of Frederick Atkinson, it. gifted painter, aged 20, who committed suicide with gas in his studio at Maidavale after a passionate affair with Dolores, the model of Epstein, and other famous artists.
Atkinson was the son of a Yorkshire miner and was apprenticed as a signwriter until a Rooheram art master advised him to go to London at any cost, lie borrowed fifty shillings from his aunt, barely enough for a railway fare, and lie was so successful in London that lie furnished a studio and saved £2OO within two years, then had the misfortune to see) Dolores posing as a figure for a brother artist. Immediately he was desperately in love with her and lavished his savings upon the woman, though she was 38 years old and married-
Finally the heart-broken hoy committed suicide. Dolores, interviewed, said: “I am not a girl. I have lived. He was so earnest that 1 befriended him.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 9 January 1929, Page 5
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187LOVE TRAGEDY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 9 January 1929, Page 5
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