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Henry Thomas Alken - Military Discoveries

Military Discoveries (1819)

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 – Bear Baiting

Scenes in the Life of Master George – Bear Baiting (1823)

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

Steeplechase race (1820-1830)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Head and Shoulders of a Boxer Dog, Profile Right

Head and Shoulders of a Boxer Dog, Profile Right

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Head and Neck of a Horse in Fear or Exhaustion, Mane Swept Forwards, Profile Right

Head and Neck of a Horse in Fear or Exhaustion, Mane Swept Forwards, Profile Right

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

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

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Symptoms: of a Few Neat Ones going to a Mill, of Returning from the Epping Hunt.

Symptoms: of a Few Neat Ones going to a Mill, of Returning from the Epping Hunt. (between 1818 and 1822)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Easter Monday [Stag Hunting]: A View near Epping

Easter Monday [Stag Hunting]: A View near Epping (1817)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
A Character in Renaissance Dress…

A Character in Renaissance Dress…

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Shooting, or One Day’s Sport of Three Real Good One’s

Shooting, or One Day’s Sport of Three Real Good One’s (1823)

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

The Lover (1824)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Easter Monday [Stag Hunting]: A View near Windsor

Easter Monday [Stag Hunting]: A View near Windsor (1817)

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

The St. Leger, Doncaster; Preparing to Start

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
The Death; Yokels Watching in Foreground

The Death; Yokels Watching in Foreground

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Full Tilt And Knee Deep,A Pair

Full Tilt And Knee Deep,A Pair

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Steeplechasing; The Field Coming up to a Ditch

Steeplechasing; The Field Coming up to a Ditch

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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