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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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The Night Riders of Nacton; Preparing to Start. Ipswich, the Watering Place behind the Barracks

The Night Riders of Nacton; Preparing to Start. Ipswich, the Watering Place behind the Barracks

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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The Night Riders of Nacton; The Finish. Nacton Church and Village

The Night Riders of Nacton; The Finish. Nacton Church and Village

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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The Night Riders of Nacton; The Last Field near Nacton Heath

The Night Riders of Nacton; The Last Field near Nacton Heath

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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The Night Riders of Nacton; Whoop! and Away! The large field near Biles Corner

The Night Riders of Nacton; Whoop! and Away! The large field near Biles Corner

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Figurative
The Seven Ages of the Horse 7

The Seven Ages of the Horse 7 (1825)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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The St. Leger, Doncaster; Preparing to Start

The St. Leger, Doncaster; Preparing to Start

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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The St. Leger, Doncaster; The Finish

The St. Leger, Doncaster; The Finish

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Three Racehorses with Jockeys Up Galloping in a Group to Left

Three Racehorses with Jockeys Up Galloping in a Group to Left

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Figurative
Topping a Flight of Rails and Coming Well into the Next Field

Topping a Flight of Rails and Coming Well into the Next Field

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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‘Topping a Park fence and doing the thing easy’

‘Topping a Park fence and doing the thing easy’ (1827)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Two Jockeys Galloping Neck and Neck to Right

Two Jockeys Galloping Neck and Neck to Right

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Two Riders and a Couple of Hounds Clearing a Wall

Two Riders and a Couple of Hounds Clearing a Wall (1845)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Two Riders Exercising Horses at a Gallop

Two Riders Exercising Horses at a Gallop

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Two Riders Jumping a Wooden Fence

Two Riders Jumping a Wooden Fence

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Two Riders Taking a Double Fence

Two Riders Taking a Double Fence

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Two Turkish Cavalrymen

Two Turkish Cavalrymen

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

Wild Duck Shooting

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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The Cock-Tails Done

The Cock-Tails Done (1834)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Landscape
The Life of a Sportsman; ‘A Night Scene with Sir Thomas Mostyn’

The Life of a Sportsman; ‘A Night Scene with Sir Thomas Mostyn’ (1842)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Landscape
Yellowham Wood

Yellowham Wood (1834)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Landscape
[Fox-hunting] Some Do and Some Don’t: It is All a Notion. Getting a Dive

[Fox-hunting] Some Do and Some Don’t: It is All a Notion. Getting a Dive (1820)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Illustration
[Fox-hunting] Some Do and Some Don’t: It is All a Notion. Getting a fall

[Fox-hunting] Some Do and Some Don’t: It is All a Notion. Getting a fall (1820)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Illustration
[Fox-hunting] Some Do and Some Don’t: It is All a Notion. Getting Dead Beat

[Fox-hunting] Some Do and Some Don’t: It is All a Notion. Getting Dead Beat (1820)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Illustration
[Fox-hunting] Some Do and Some Don’t: It is All a Notion. Getting Home

[Fox-hunting] Some Do and Some Don’t: It is All a Notion. Getting Home (1820)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Illustration
[Fox-hunting] Some Do and Some Don’t: It is All a Notion. Getting into a Bog

[Fox-hunting] Some Do and Some Don’t: It is All a Notion. Getting into a Bog (1820)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Illustration
[Fox-hunting] Some Do and Some Don’t: It is All a Notion. Getting into a difficulty

[Fox-hunting] Some Do and Some Don’t: It is All a Notion. Getting into a difficulty (1820)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Illustration
[Fox-hunting] Some Do and Some Don’t: It is All a Notion. Getting over a difficulty

[Fox-hunting] Some Do and Some Don’t: It is All a Notion. Getting over a difficulty (1820)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Illustration
[Hunting Discoveries] … at Length perceive a light which you Discover …

[Hunting Discoveries] … at Length perceive a light which you Discover … (1817)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Illustration
[Hunting Discoveries] … Discover if you intend to do the thing well …

[Hunting Discoveries] … Discover if you intend to do the thing well … (1817)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Illustration
[Hunting Discoveries] … Discover that it would have been prudent …

[Hunting Discoveries] … Discover that it would have been prudent … (1817)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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