This tiny snippet comes from an article that appeared in the Australian Women's Weekly in 1971 entitled The Ghost and Mrs Atkins.
The article tells the story of of Dorothy Atkins and her life as an artist in a charming 1858 house in Hunters Hill by the name of Lyndcote, which she believes she shares with a ghost named Ella.
When the Atkins family moved into the house in the early 1940's it was almost impossible to discern that it was a stone house. A previous owner had added about 20 rooms, and the resulting exterior was an ugly mixture of rotting timber, corrugated iron, and asbestos cement. The once gracious garden was a lantana jungle. The Atkins family restored it to its original elegance and it served as both family home and artist studio.
Given her evident passion for restoration we're sure Mrs Atkins would share our concern for the fate of Thompson Square.
So the question is; what became of the painting?
The article: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/43600919?searchTerm=the+ghost+and+mrs+atkins&searchLimits
Some examples of her work: http://www.artrecord.com/index.cfm/artist/3007-atkins-dorothy/medium/1-paintings/
The article tells the story of of Dorothy Atkins and her life as an artist in a charming 1858 house in Hunters Hill by the name of Lyndcote, which she believes she shares with a ghost named Ella.
When the Atkins family moved into the house in the early 1940's it was almost impossible to discern that it was a stone house. A previous owner had added about 20 rooms, and the resulting exterior was an ugly mixture of rotting timber, corrugated iron, and asbestos cement. The once gracious garden was a lantana jungle. The Atkins family restored it to its original elegance and it served as both family home and artist studio.
Given her evident passion for restoration we're sure Mrs Atkins would share our concern for the fate of Thompson Square.
So the question is; what became of the painting?
The article: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/43600919?searchTerm=the+ghost+and+mrs+atkins&searchLimits
Some examples of her work: http://www.artrecord.com/index.cfm/artist/3007-atkins-dorothy/medium/1-paintings/