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Henry Thomas Alken was an English artist born into a sporting art family in 1785. His father, Samuel, was his first teacher before studying with J.T.B. Beaumont and exhibiting at the Royal Academy. Alken had a successful career spent creating paintings, drawings, and etchings of the wide variety of field and sporting activities popular in England. His works include a set of etchings entitled "Humorous Speciments of Riding" from 1821 and the illustrations for "The National Sports of Great Britain." Alken's paintings can be found in the Tate Museum, London, and his illustrations can be found in the British Museum, London.