Lot 169: Pierre Asthasie Theodore Senties (French, born 1801) Charlotte Isabella Blyth, aged eleven years, and James Blyth, aged seven years, she wearing buttoned dress with frilled white collar and matching jacket with pagoda sleeves, seated, he wearing

Charlotte Isabella Blyth, aged eleven years, and James Blyth, aged seven years, she wearing buttoned dress with frilled white collar and matching jacket with pagoda sleeves, seated, he wearing belted smock over frilled white chemise with collar and tied black bow, standing, his right elbow resting on the chair back.
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 only daughter and eldest son of Henry and Charlotte Blyth. Charlotte Isabella went on to marry Sir John Hill (possibly of Brook Hall, Londonderry) whilst her brother married a Kate Heriot.

For a portrait of the sitters' younger siblings, see lot 168.