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Henry Thomas Alken - 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)

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

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

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Scenes from a steeplechase: Taking a Hedge (ca. 1845)

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

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Symptoms: of How Do You Do, of I Should Not Have Known You, of My Lud, Of Easing a Patient, of a Loose Rein, of Wokey, of Tight in Hand

Symptoms: of How Do You Do, of I Should Not Have Known You, of My Lud, Of Easing a Patient, of a Loose Rein, of Wokey, of Tight in Hand (between 1818 and 1822)

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[Hunting Discoveries] … Discover the whole face of the country … (1817)

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Leicestershire – Full Cry (1827)

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Symptoms: of to be Sold, of Despair, of Who is There, of Sold and Had Him a Week (between 1818 and 1822)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Mr. Jorrocks Beats the Baron for Speed

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Full Cry

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