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Henry Thomas Alken
Henry Thomas Alken

Henry Thomas Alken

English, 1785 – 1851
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Henry Thomas Alken was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes. His most prolific period of painting and drawing occurred between 1816 and 1831.

Alken was born on 12 October 1785 in Soho, Westminster, and baptised on 6 November at St James's Church, Piccadilly. He was the third son of Samuel Alken, a sporting artist. Two of his brothers were George and Samuel Alken the Younger, also an artist. In 1789, the Alken family moved from Soho to 2, Francis Street East, Bedford Square.

Young Henry first studied under his father and then with the miniature painter John Thomas Barber Beaumont (1774–1841), also known as J. T. Barber. In 1801, Alken sent a miniature portrait of Miss Gubbins to the Royal Academy Exhibition. He exhibited a second miniature at the Royal Academy before abandoning miniature painting and taking on painting and illustrating. Early in his career, he painted sporting subjects under the name of "Ben Tally-O". Alken married Maria Gordon on 14 October 1809 at St Clement's Church, Ipswich. On 22 August of the following year later the couple's first son was baptised. Alken went on to father five children, of whom two were artists, Samuel Henry, also a sporting artist, known as Henry Alken junior, and Sefferien junior.

From about 1816 onwards Alken "produced an unending stream of paintings, drawings and engravings of every type of field and other sporting activity," and his soft-ground etchings were often colored by hand. When Alken was 26, he and his young family lived over a shop in Haymarket that belonged to print publisher Thomas McLean of the "Repository of Wit and Humour." McLean paid Alken a daily wage of thirty shillings, considered a good income at the time.

Alken died in April 1851 and was buried in Highgate cemetery. Although fairly affluent for most of his career, he fell on hard times towards the end of his life and was buried at his daughter's expense.

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When jealous out of Season…

When jealous out of Season… (1822)

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While happy in my Native Land…

While happy in my Native Land… (1822)

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With

With (mixture without measure..._1822)

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Ye gentle gates that fan the air…

Ye gentle gates that fan the air… (1822)

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Ye Gentlemen of England That Live at Ease…

Ye Gentlemen of England That Live at Ease… (1822)

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Ye little loves that round her wait…

Ye little loves that round her wait… (1822)

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A Bath Coach

A Bath Coach (1820)

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A Meltonian as he us’d to be

A Meltonian as he us’d to be (1823)

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A Meltonian as he was

A Meltonian as he was (1823)

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Bittern Shooting

Bittern Shooting (1817)

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Breaking Cover

Breaking Cover (1824)

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Drawing the Cover

Drawing the Cover (1835)

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Fox Hunters – Gone Away

Fox Hunters – Gone Away (1828)

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Fox Hunting; Fores’s Hunting Casualties – A Mutual Determination

Fox Hunting; Fores’s Hunting Casualties – A Mutual Determination (1850)

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Fox Hunting; Fores’s Hunting Casualties – A Strange country

Fox Hunting; Fores’s Hunting Casualties – A Strange country (1850)

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Fox Hunting; Fores’s Hunting Casualties – A Turn of speed over the flat

Fox Hunting; Fores’s Hunting Casualties – A Turn of speed over the flat (1850)

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Fox Hunting; Fores’s Hunting Casualties – Dispatched to Head Quarters

Fox Hunting; Fores’s Hunting Casualties – Dispatched to Head Quarters (1850)

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Fox Hunting; Fores’s Hunting Casualties – Up to Sixteen Stone

Fox Hunting; Fores’s Hunting Casualties – Up to Sixteen Stone (1850)

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Fox Hunting; Leicestershire – The Meeting

Fox Hunting; Leicestershire – The Meeting (1827)

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Fox-hunting; Full Cry

Fox-hunting; Full Cry (1813)

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Fox-hunting; Breaking Cover

Fox-hunting; Breaking Cover (1813)

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Fox-hunting; Breaking Cover

Fox-hunting; Breaking Cover (1813)

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Fox-hunting; In Full Cry

Fox-hunting; In Full Cry (1813)

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Fox-hunting; The Death

Fox-hunting; The Death (1813)

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Fox-hunting; Throwing Off

Fox-hunting; Throwing Off (1813)

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Fox-hunting; Unkennelling

Fox-hunting; Unkennelling (1813)

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Fox-hunting; Who-hoop!

Fox-hunting; Who-hoop! (1844)

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Full Cry

Full Cry (1828)

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Full Cry

Full Cry (1824)

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Going home, Meltonians as the are

Going home, Meltonians as the are (1823)

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