Young Artist s Love Leads Him to Death
TRAGIC ROMANCE AN AFFAIR WITH DOLORES (United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright (Australian and N.Z. Press Assocnat Hood. 10.2 S a.m. LONDON. Tuesda> The newspapers are giving prominence to the love tragedy of Frederick Atkinson, a gifted painter, aged 2l>. who committed suicide by gas in his studio at Maida Yale, alter a passionate affair with Dolores, the model of Epstein and other famous artists. Atkinson, tho son of a Yorkshire miner, was apprenticed to a sign-writer until a Rotherham art-master advised him to go to London at any cost. Atkinson borrowed from an aunt barely enough for his railway fare. So successful was he in London that he furnished a studio and saved £2OO within two years. Then he had the misfortune to see Dolores posing for a brother artist. Immediately he fell desperately in love. He lavished his savings upon the woman, though she is 38 and married. Finally, heartbroken, the boy committed suicide. Dolores, interviewed, explains: “I am not a girl. I have lived. He was si* earnest, aml T befriended him.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 557, 9 January 1929, Page 9
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180Young Artist s Love Leads Him to Death Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 557, 9 January 1929, Page 9
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