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Henry Thomas Alken - 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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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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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)
[Hunting Discoveries] … Discover that the only means you can adopt …

[Hunting Discoveries] … Discover that the only means you can adopt … (1817)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Steeplechasing; Three Riders Galloping to Right, Mounted Spectators in Background

Steeplechasing; Three Riders Galloping to Right, Mounted Spectators in Background

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

Sporting Satirist (1834)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
‘Landscape Scenery’, No. 18: Scenes of Horse Drawn Artillery, etc.

‘Landscape Scenery’, No. 18: Scenes of Horse Drawn Artillery, etc. (1821)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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)
The progress of steam. A view in Regent Park, 1831.

The progress of steam. A view in Regent Park, 1831. (1828)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Symptoms: of Being Bang Up, of a Fine Woman, of Being Bang Down, Of a Quiet One.

Symptoms: of Being Bang Up, of a Fine Woman, of Being Bang Down, Of a Quiet One. (between 1818 and 1822)

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

Morning Ride (between 1822 and 1823)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
‘Scraps’, No. 8: Scenes of a Lancer and Other Cavalry

‘Scraps’, No. 8: Scenes of a Lancer and Other Cavalry (1823)

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

The Cock-Tails Done (1834)

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

Hunting Scene: The Kill (ca. 1840)

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

Grouse Shooting (ca. 1825)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Studies of Anglers

Studies of Anglers

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Symptoms: of Sporting Friends Likely-to Go Together, of a Double Entendre, of Sporting Friends Likely-to Seperate, of Sure to HIt the Mark.

Symptoms: of Sporting Friends Likely-to Go Together, of a Double Entendre, of Sporting Friends Likely-to Seperate, of Sure to HIt the Mark. (between 1822 and 1827)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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