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Henry Thomas Alken - Foxhunting; Gone to Ground

Foxhunting; Gone to Ground

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

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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Drawing for ‘Specimens of Riding near London:’ The Pleasure of Riding in Company. One Would Stop if the Other Could

Drawing for ‘Specimens of Riding near London:’ The Pleasure of Riding in Company. One Would Stop if the Other Could (between 1809 and 1823)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
What’s this dull town to me…

What’s this dull town to me… (1822)

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

The Seven Ages of the Horse (1825)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Running hounds

Running hounds (1817-1818)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Morning Ride

Morning Ride (between 1822 and 1823)

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

Partridge Shooters

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
The Progress of Steam

The Progress of Steam (1829)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
People on a carriage watching dogs chasing a rabbit

People on a carriage watching dogs chasing a rabbit (1817-1818)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Head and Shoulders of a Collie Dog, Wearing a Leash or Tether, Sketchy Sheep in Background

Head and Shoulders of a Collie Dog, Wearing a Leash or Tether, Sketchy Sheep in Background

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Dogs chasing birds

Dogs chasing birds (1817-1818)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
‘Lift me Up! Tie me in my Chair! Fill my Glass’

‘Lift me Up! Tie me in my Chair! Fill my Glass’

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Ye gentle gates that fan the air…

Ye gentle gates that fan the air… (1822)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Steeplechasing; The Field taking a Stone Wall and Gate

Steeplechasing; The Field taking a Stone Wall and Gate

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Sporting Notions: ‘I Have a Notion That My Horse Looks Like 40 Guineas in the Pound’

Sporting Notions: ‘I Have a Notion That My Horse Looks Like 40 Guineas in the Pound’ (between 1831 and 1832)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Tree-ing the Fox

Tree-ing the Fox (1820-1821)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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