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Henry Thomas Alken - The Lover

The Lover (1824)

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; The Finish. Nacton Church and Village

The Night Riders of Nacton; The Finish. Nacton Church and Village

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Symptoms: of to be Sold, of Despair, of Who is There, of Sold and Had Him a Week

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

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

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
‘Scraps’, No. 39: Mounted Hussars

‘Scraps’, No. 39: Mounted Hussars (1823)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Sporting sketches – Title page

Sporting sketches – Title page (1817-1818)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Heads of domestic and wild animals and full figure of a dog, pig, horse, cows and a cock; a working farmer

Heads of domestic and wild animals and full figure of a dog, pig, horse, cows and a cock; a working farmer (1817-1818)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Hunting scene (dogs ready to hounddown)

Hunting scene (dogs ready to hounddown) (1817-1818)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Dark-brown horse

Dark-brown horse (1817-1818)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
The Seven Ages of the Horse

The Seven Ages of the Horse (1825)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Partridge Shooters

Partridge Shooters

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

The Return (1813)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
The Bruce Passing the Peveril Coach and Manchester Mail

The Bruce Passing the Peveril Coach and Manchester Mail (1837)

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

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

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

Hunting Scene: The Kill (ca. 1840)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Fox Hunting; Leicestershire – The Meeting

Fox Hunting; Leicestershire – The Meeting (1827)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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