Henry Thomas Alken

Portrait of Henry Thomas Alken as Ben Talley O (published in Animal painters of England from the year 1650 by Walter Gilbey).

Henry Thomas Alken (12 October 1785 – 7 April 1851) was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes.[1] His most prolific period of painting and drawing occurred between 1816 and 1831.

  1. ^ R. R. Tatlock. Henry Alken (The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 37, No. 212, - Nov 1920) pp. 247-254.