
In order of size, the girls are: Xena, Leela, Nyssa (the one with the blaze on her forehead), Susanna and Thomasina. The two youngest girls were sisters, but Susanna grew and Thomasina didn’t. She was diabetic and died when she was only half a year old—three days before Xena, who had passed the two-and-a-half-year mark. This picture would have been painted in the spring or early summer of 2006.