A 19TH CEN. HUNTING SCENE OIL PAINTING BY HENRY THOMAS ALKEN
Henry Thomas Alken, Sr. (English, 1785 - 1851), an early 19th-century oil on canvas painting depicting a gentleman and two dogs hunting partridges in a landscape. Inscribed verso. Unframed.Note: Henry Thomas Alken was an English artist, 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 satirized the eccentricities of the upper classes at play.
Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 10 in., (30 x 25.5 cm.)
Condition: Good, relined.
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Henry Thomas Alken, Sr. (English, 1785 - 1851), an early 19th-century oil on canvas painting depicting a gentleman and two dogs hunting partridges in a landscape. Inscribed verso. Unframed.Note: Henry Thomas Alken was an English artist, 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 satirized the eccentricities of the upper classes at play.
Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 10 in., (30 x 25.5 cm.)
Condition: Good, relined.