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Henry Thomas Alken, Sr. (1785 - 1851) was active/lived in United Kingdom, England. Henry Alken Sr is known for Equestrian genre painting, engraving, miniatures.
Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1951), was the most famous member of the Alken family. He was a true master draftsman and as comfortable in the medium of oil and watercolor as he was engraving. His hunting and racing prints disseminated his work far and wide through the 1820s and 1830s making him a household name. Often humorous, his prints gently satirised the eccentricities of the upper classes at play. An avid sportsman himself, it is the character which shines through his paintings that is particularly charming.
The present lot shows two works,
The Meet
and
The Kill
, most probably from a set of four which follow a hunt from beginning to end. Generally this will include
The Meet
, showing the riders and hounds gathering. Here, we can see what looks like the master of the hunt arriving by carriage to the left of the picture, another carriage is visible in the distance. Next, we might have ‘Breaking Cover’ where the fox has been forced into the open by the houn ...
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Similar artists
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Wouterus Verschuur I
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Samuel Henry Gordon Alken
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Allan Ramsay
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John Wilson Carmichael
,
John E Ferneley Sr
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John Emms
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Harry (Henry) Hall
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Franklin Voss
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Benjamin Marshall
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John Frederick Herring Sr
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Lionel Dalhousie Robertson Edwards
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John Frederick Herring Jr
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Peter Biegel
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Abraham Cooper
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Alfred Wheeler
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Charles Francois Daubigny
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Francis Grant
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Thomas Sidney Cooper
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John Arnold Alfred Wheeler
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Alfred De Breanski Sr
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Robert Gemmell Hutchison
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Antoine-Louis Barye
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Paul Lucien Maze
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Sir Alfred Munnings
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