Lot 168: Pierre Asthasie Theodore Senties (French, born 1801) Henry Harrison Blyth, aged four years, wearing dress with frilled sleeves and collar, crocheted socks and black pumps, seated, a birdcage in his lap; Carlton Blyth, aged eighteen months, wearing a

Henry Harrison Blyth, aged four years, wearing dress with frilled sleeves and collar, crocheted socks and black pumps, seated, a birdcage in his lap; Carlton Blyth, aged eighteen months, wearing a buttoned dress with bows at the shoulders, seated on a tasselled cushion, holding a small bag; and Claude Arthur Blyth, aged six months, wearing a frilled dress with bows at the shoulders, a toy horse under his left arm, a rattle in his right hand.
Charcoal and monochrome wash heightened with scratching out, signed on the obverse Th. Senties, wood frame.
Oval, 505mm (19 7/8in) high

The sitters are recorded as the three youngest sons of Henry and Charlotte Blyth.

For a portrait of the sitters' older siblings, see lot 169.