Portrait of John Waters (ca. 1853-1929) and Mollie Waters (1850-1862), (painting).

Portrait of John Waters (ca. 1853-1929) and Mollie Waters (1850-1862), (painting).

Cooper, T. W., painter.

Portrait of John Waters (ca. 1853-1929) and Mollie Waters (1850-1862), (painting).

59 1/2 x 47 1/2 in. (151.1 x 120.7 cm).

Interior scene depicting a young John Waters, wearing in a white shirt with a plaid sash across his chest, standing behind his sister Mollie, who wears a white off-the-shoulder dress and holds a bouquet of flowers in her lap.

Portrait group -- Family -- Siblings

Portrait male -- Waters, John -- Child

Occupation -- Medicine -- Doctor

Portrait female -- Waters, Mollie -- Child

Architecture interior -- Domestic

Arkansas Arts Center, 9th & Commerce Streets, MacArthur Park, Little Rock, Arkansas 72202

Donated by Rawlings, W. S., Mrs., Little Rock, Arkansas

The two siblings were the children of Dr. John and Ann (Rawlings) Waters. Mollie died of scarlet fever around 1862 at the age of twelve. Her brother grew up to become a doctor and practiced medicine in Little Rock and Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where he died in 1929 at age seventy-six. The children were the great grandchildren of Felix Grundy, attorney general in President Martin Van Buren's cabinet.

Crawford, Sybil F., 2003.

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