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Henry Thomas Alken - Tree-ing the Fox

Tree-ing the Fox (1820-1821)

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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Two Riders Taking a Double Fence

Two Riders Taking a Double Fence

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
‘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)
‘Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving;’ … Up and Down, or the Endeavor to Discover Which Way Your Horse is Inclined to Come Down, Backwards or Forwards

‘Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving;’ … Up and Down, or the Endeavor to Discover Which Way Your Horse is Inclined to Come Down, Backwards or Forwards

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
‘Doing the Thing; and the Thing Done;’ Doing the Down Leap

‘Doing the Thing; and the Thing Done;’ Doing the Down Leap (1818)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Two Pointers, Facing Right with a Sportsman

Two Pointers, Facing Right with a Sportsman

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

Sporting Satirist (1834)

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)
What beau was arm’d completer…

What beau was arm’d completer… (1822)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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)
‘Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving;’ …You Discover a New Way of Bringing Your Equipage into a Small Compass

‘Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving;’ …You Discover a New Way of Bringing Your Equipage into a Small Compass

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)
Studies of Anglers

Studies of Anglers

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)
‘Some Do and Some Don’t; It is All a Notion;’ Getting into a Bog

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

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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