A LOVE AFFAIR
AN ARTIST SUICIDES. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copviigntl. ' (Received this dnv at 11 n.m.) LONDON, Jan. 8. The newspapers are giving proniin. once to the love tragedy of Frederick Atkinson, a gifted painter, aged 20. who committed suicide with gas in his studio at Alaidavale, after a passionate affair with Dolores, the model of Epstein apd other famous artists. Atkinson is the son of a Yorkshire miner, and was apprenticed to a signwriter until a Rotheram art master advised him to go to London at any cost. He borrowed 50 shillings from an aunt, barely enough for the railway fare.
He was so successful in London that lie furnished a studio and saved £-00 within two years. He then had Hie misfortune to see Dolores, posing as a figure for a brother artist, and he immediately fell desperately in love with her, and lavished his savings upon the woman, though she was 38 years of age and married. Finally, the heart-broken hoy committed suicide. Dolores, interviewed, said:—“l am not a girl, J have lived. He was so earnest that T befriended him.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1929, Page 6
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185A LOVE AFFAIR Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1929, Page 6
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