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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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Full Tilt And Knee Deep,A Pair

Full Tilt And Knee Deep,A Pair

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Duck Shooting in Winter

Duck Shooting in Winter (ca. 1825)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Duck Shooting

Duck Shooting (ca. 1825)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Grouse Shooting

Grouse Shooting (ca. 1825)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Hunting Scene: Drawing the Cover

Hunting Scene: Drawing the Cover (ca. 1840)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Hunting Scene: In Full Cry

Hunting Scene: In Full Cry (ca. 1840)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Hunting Scene: The Kill

Hunting Scene: The Kill (ca. 1840)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Hunting Scene: The Meet

Hunting Scene: The Meet (ca. 1840)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Partridge Shooting

Partridge Shooting (ca. 1825)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Pheasant Shooting

Pheasant Shooting

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Scenes from a Seeplechase: The Winner

Scenes from a Seeplechase: The Winner (ca. 1845)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Scenes From a Steeplechase: Another Hedge

Scenes From a Steeplechase: Another Hedge (ca. 1845)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Scenes from a steeplechase: Near the Finish

Scenes from a steeplechase: Near the Finish (ca. 1845)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Scenes from a steeplechase: Taking a Hedge

Scenes from a steeplechase: Taking a Hedge (ca. 1845)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Full Cry

Full Cry

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Gone Away

Gone Away

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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A Cock-fight Watched by Four Men in an Out-House;The Death

A Cock-fight Watched by Four Men in an Out-House;The Death

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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A Cock-Fight Watched by Four Men in an Out-House

A Cock-Fight Watched by Four Men in an Out-House (1821)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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A Gentleman driving a four-in-hand to a Mail Phaeton, accompanied by three grooms

A Gentleman driving a four-in-hand to a Mail Phaeton, accompanied by three grooms

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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A Gentleman Riding With a Groom, and Coversing

A Gentleman Riding With a Groom, and Coversing

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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A Groom Leading a Bay Horse

A Groom Leading a Bay Horse

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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A Whipper-In and a Couple of Hounds Running Hard in Open Country

A Whipper-In and a Couple of Hounds Running Hard in Open Country

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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‘By – he’ll get to the Earth…’

‘By – he’ll get to the Earth…’ (1827)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Charging an Ox Fence

Charging an Ox Fence

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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‘Doing the Thing; and the Thing Done;’ Afternoon. Returning Home in Fine Trim. Doing the Most you Can

‘Doing the Thing; and the Thing Done;’ Afternoon. Returning Home in Fine Trim. Doing the Most you Can (1818)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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‘Doing the Thing; and the Thing Done;’ Doing it No How

‘Doing the Thing; and the Thing Done;’ Doing it No How (1818)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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‘Doing the Thing; and the Thing Done;’ Doing it Somehow

‘Doing the Thing; and the Thing Done;’ Doing it Somehow (1818)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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‘Doing the Thing; and the Thing Done;’ Doing the Down Leap

‘Doing the Thing; and the Thing Done;’ Doing the Down Leap (1818)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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‘Doing the Thing; and the Thing Done;’ Doing the Thing Well – [giving Dribblers the go bye]

‘Doing the Thing; and the Thing Done;’ Doing the Thing Well – [giving Dribblers the go bye] (1818)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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‘Doing the Thing; and the Thing Done;’ Morning. Turning Out in Prime Twig. Doing the Least you Can

‘Doing the Thing; and the Thing Done;’ Morning. Turning Out in Prime Twig. Doing the Least you Can (1818)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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