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Cooper, T. W.,
Portrait group -- Family
Portrait male -- Waters, John
Occupation -- Medicine
Portrait female -- Waters, Mollie
Architecture interior -- Domestic
Painting
Portrait of John Waters (ca. 1853-1929) and Mollie Waters (1850-1862), (painting).
Artist:
Cooper, T. W., painter.
Title:
Portrait of John Waters (ca. 1853-1929) and Mollie Waters (1850-1862), (painting).
Dates:
19th c.
Medium:
Oil.
Dimensions:
59 1/2 x 47 1/2 in. (151.1 x 120.7 cm).
Description:
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.
Subject:
Portrait group -- Family -- Siblings
Portrait male -- Waters, John -- Child
Occupation -- Medicine -- Doctor
Portrait female -- Waters, Mollie -- Child
Architecture interior -- Domestic
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Arkansas Arts Center, 9th & Commerce Streets, MacArthur Park, Little Rock, Arkansas 72202
Provenance:
Donated by Rawlings, W. S., Mrs., Little Rock, Arkansas
Remarks:
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.
References:
Owner, 1972.
Crawford, Sybil F., 2003.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAP 01660013
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Paintings
01660013
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