STUDIO TRAGEDY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2722, 29 January 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)

STUDIO TRAGEDY.

ENGLISH LADY ARTIST’S DEATH IN PARIS. Miss Jenny Mackinson, an English painter, aged forty, has been round dead in her modest studio in the Kuo d’Ulm. the circumstances, according to the “Petit Journal,” pointing to death from privation. , Despite her talents, the sale of.her pictures barely brought her a sufficient income to live upon, and she was too reserved to disclose her position. Nothing had been seen of her lor four days when an employee of a gas company called to read her meter. As he received 'no reply to his knocking, the concierge forced open the door. Miss Mackinson was lying dead in her^ bed. According to the medical evidence death had taken place four days before and was due to congestion caused by the cold. , , , t There are said to be hundreds ot lonely Englishwomen no longer young who make a precarious living in Paris as artists, musicians, and teachers of English. They do not mix with their compatriots. They are unknown to the British colony, and when sickness or want overtakes them they shrink from appealing to charitable institutions ■\vbich would gladly relieve their necessities. i