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Henry Thomas Alken - Illustration to R.S. Surtees’, ‘Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities’: Title page

Illustration to R.S. Surtees’, ‘Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities’: Title page

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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Scenes in the Life of Master George – Giving the village donkey a treat

Scenes in the Life of Master George – Giving the village donkey a treat (1823)

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‘Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders;’ ‘Swishing at a Rasper From Your Own Timidity and Mismanagement Cause the Horse to Swerve…’

‘Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders;’ ‘Swishing at a Rasper From Your Own Timidity and Mismanagement Cause the Horse to Swerve…’

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Sportsmen within an enclosure

Sportsmen within an enclosure (1817-1818)

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Foxhunting; Drawing a Cover

Foxhunting; Drawing a Cover

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

Military Discoveries (1819)

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

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

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Clearing hurdle during a hunting

Clearing hurdle during a hunting (1817-1818)

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

Dogs chasing birds (1817-1818)

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‘Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving;’ …You Discover You Have Obtained a Steady One

‘Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving;’ …You Discover You Have Obtained a Steady One

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
‘Sporting Incidents:’ Drawing For the Soft-ground Etching of ‘Through the Wood’

‘Sporting Incidents:’ Drawing For the Soft-ground Etching of ‘Through the Wood’

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Symptoms: of Can’t Wait, of Come-to Ther Glass, of Blood & Bone-Going Against Time, of the Reduced List, of Out of Cash…1818-1822

Symptoms: of Can’t Wait, of Come-to Ther Glass, of Blood & Bone-Going Against Time, of the Reduced List, of Out of Cash…1818-1822

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

The Infant (1824)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Trying to get animal from its burrow.

Trying to get animal from its burrow. (1817-1818)

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

The Return (1813)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
‘Scraps’, no 17: Racing, Three Horses with Jockeys Up Galloping to Right

‘Scraps’, no 17: Racing, Three Horses with Jockeys Up Galloping to Right

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