Henry Thomas Alken Pencil And Watercolour Drawing A Sportsman With His Dogs Circa.1820

Henry Thomas Alken Pencil And Watercolour Drawing A Sportsman With His Dogs Circa.1820Henry Thomas Alken 1785 1851. Pencil and watercolour drawing. A sportsman and his dogs flushing a pheasant from cover. 33 by 23 cms. to mounted image. Provenance: With The Parker Gallery London Ca. 1960. The most distinguished member of an artistic dynasty, Henry Alken was The pre eminent sporting artist of the early nineteenth century. Born in Golden Square, Soho, London on 12 October 1785, the third son of Samuel Alken, an architect and engraver of

corner of Old Bond Street

Ellen Wallace initially studied under James Sharples at Bath and they married in 1787

where he learnt his etching techniques under Frank Short

and brothers

Mannings lists two portraits of the sitter by Reynolds The first painted for the Duke of Dorset in Ca

This work is a study after the marble sculpture executed in 1656 in Rome by an unknown hand

He exhibited portraits as well as literary and historical subjects and produced illustrations to Shakespeare

September 1814 Aged 52

after a design by Nicolas Poussin (1594 - 1665)

7 by 42 cms

5 by 17 cms

Etching Signed and dated 1924 Numbered 2/100