Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. - Public domain portrait painting

Miniature watercolor portrait of the first Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr, born on March 18, 1909 in New York City. Eleanor Roosevelt later described him as the biggest and most beautiful of all her children. In the fall of 1908, Franklin, Jr. contracted influenza and died of complications. He is buried in the churchyard at St. James' Church in Hyde Park. Nearly thirty years later Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, "and to this day, so many years later, I can stand by his tiny little stone in the churchyard and see the little group of people gathered around his tiny coffin, and remember how cruel it seemed to leave him out there alone in the cold." This miniature watercolor was painted Sonia Routchine in 1910.