"The Hunt" By Henry Gordon Alken British 1785-1850
This painting depicts a sporting scene. Including a sportsman riding a horse surrounded by hunting dogs on an open field. The painting isan original painting done in watercolor. It is beautifully framed, and on the back '"The Hunt" By Henry Gordon Alken British 1785-1850' is written. Also, is a sticker with "Old Print Exchange Correct Picture Framing Howard F. Porter 14 East 48th St. New York City" labeled.
Samuel Alken Junior was a member of one of the most prominent families of sporting artists working in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Britain. Of Danish origin, Samuel Alken Senior (1750-1815) was the founder of the family tradition. He built his own artistic career by engraving hunting and sporting landscapes in the manner of Stubbs. His prodigious fame was based upon his mastery of the quintessential British subject: the hunt. He excelled at painting in oil and watercolor, like his brother and father, concentrated his career upon the sporting genre.
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