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Henry Thomas Alken - ‘Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving;’ … Trying a New Match you Discover That They are Not Only Alike in Color, Weight and Action, but in Disposition

‘Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving;’ … Trying a New Match you Discover That They are Not Only Alike in Color, Weight and Action, but in Disposition

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; Leicestershire – The Meeting

Fox Hunting; Leicestershire – The Meeting (1827)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
[Fox-hunting] Some Do and Some Don’t: It is All a Notion. Getting into a difficulty

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

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Stout and Plain Country Girl Being Courted by a Yodel with Pitchfork

Stout and Plain Country Girl Being Courted by a Yodel with Pitchfork

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Foxhunting; Full Cry

Foxhunting; Full Cry

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
‘Sporting Incidents:’ Drawing For the Soft-gound Etching of ‘Panther Hunting’

‘Sporting Incidents:’ Drawing For the Soft-gound Etching of ‘Panther Hunting’

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
‘Some Do and Some Don’t; It is All a Notion;’ Getting Dead Beat

‘Some Do and Some Don’t; It is All a Notion;’ Getting Dead Beat (between 1848 and 1851)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
A touch of the fine arts. Unpleasant in effect, but the keeping is good.

A touch of the fine arts. Unpleasant in effect, but the keeping is good. (1824)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
‘Sporting Anecdotes:’ Sketch for ‘The Sporting Butcher’

‘Sporting Anecdotes:’ Sketch for ‘The Sporting Butcher’

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

Sporting Satirist (1834)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Two Turkish Cavalrymen

Two Turkish Cavalrymen

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Scenes in the Life of Master George – Morning Ride

Scenes in the Life of Master George – Morning Ride (1823)

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

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Far removed from Noise & Smoke…

Far removed from Noise & Smoke… (1822)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
‘Mr. Jorrocks’s Surprize on Seeing the Paris Diligence, ‘My Vig, Here’s Wombwell’s Wildbeast show’ ‘

‘Mr. Jorrocks’s Surprize on Seeing the Paris Diligence, ‘My Vig, Here’s Wombwell’s Wildbeast show’ ‘

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Horse heads and …

Horse heads and … (1817-1818)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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