Speakes, Vera Jacobs, "Mississippi Portraiture," Laurel, MS: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Mississippi and the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, 1987, pg. 113.
Summary:
Portrait of the two Freeland children seated side-by-side, with Mary on the left, her gaze directed toward the viewer, her right hand on her brothers leg, and her left arm around his shoulder, and Thomas on the right, seated with his right leg tucked under him, and his gaze directed at the viewer. Mary is dressed in a white a off-the-shoulder dress, and her dark hair falls in ringlets over her shoulders. Thomas is dressed in a white shirt and pants, and his light hair falls in ringlets around his head.