Henry Alken Furniture

A pair of hand-colored Henry Alken hunt scenes published by Tregear and Co. in Hogarth frames, first half of the 19th century: "The Death" engraved by Phelps and “Getting Away” engra...

Title: Antique Horse Racing Print by Henry Alken, Hand-Colored Sporting Etching Description: A lively and highly decorative hand-colored sporting etching titled Racing, designed and etched by the celebrated English sporting artist Henry Alken and published around 1822 as part of The Sporting Repository or the related series The National Sports of Great Britain. This dynamic early 19th-century composition captures the excitement and spectacle of an English horse race at full speed, with elegantly mounted jockeys charging across the course before a densely gathered crowd of spectators. The scene perfectly embodies the energy and theatrical atmosphere of Regency-era sporting culture. Alken masterfully conveys movement through the extended forms of the galloping horses and the animated positioning of the riders, while the immense crowd in the background creates a vivid sense of public excitement. The dramatic sky and broad racing field add depth and atmosphere to the composition, making it both a fascinating historical document and a visually striking decorative artwork. Henry Alken (1785–1851) was among the most important English sporting artists of the 19th century. Renowned for his depictions of horse racing, fox hunting, coaching scenes, and country sports, Alken became one of the defining visual chroniclers of British sporting life during the Regency period. His works were widely admired for their lively draftsmanship, humor, and keen understanding of equestrian movement. Publications such as The Sporting Repository helped establish sporting art as one of the most fashionable collecting categories of the era. This engraving combines etching and aquatint techniques with delicate original hand-coloring, producing subtle tonal transitions and rich atmospheric depth. The restrained palette and panoramic composition give the print an elegant decorative quality highly suited to classic English interiors, libraries, gentlemen’s clubs, equestrian collections, or refined sporting rooms. Today, original Alken sporting prints remain highly sought after by collectors of equestrian art, Regency decoration, horse racing memorabilia...

Full of energy and humour, this depiction of three nude male figures on a beach, one strutting by -- and admired by -- the others, was created by Roland berger, a German artist with ...

"Hunted by Bears" by artist Kevin Paulsen. Created with pigment and plaster applied to polystyrene, mounted in a shadow box frame.

Amazing image of the Brain Fine Steel engraving. Published by Orr & Smith 1830's Unframed.

Henry Thomas Alken (British, 1785-1851) A set of 3 cockfighting scenes; two images drawn and engraved by C.B. Stock, the other (diptych) by Henry Alken, published in London by W.C. ...

A miniature hunt scene painting on board, 19th century. sight: 5 ½ by 4 inches frame: 8 by 6 ½ inches

A magnificent pair of Scottish cattle highland scenes by Henry Garland in modern gilt frames... Artist: Henry Garland (1834-1913), British Title: "Grazing Ground In The Highlands" Medium: Oil On Canvas Signed: Both Paintings (Lower Left) Dimension: Canvas: H: 29 in / 73.7 cm ; W: 49 in / 124.5 cm Framed: H: 38 1/4 in / 97 cm W: 58 in / 147.5 cm ; D: 3 1/4 in / 8.5 cm Artists Biography: Born in Hadlow, Kent in 1834, he died at Leatherhead, Surrey in 1913, aged 78. He was trained at the Royal Academy of Arts during 1853 -57 where he won the medal for 'The best drawing from the Life' in both 1854 and 1857. He actively exhibited between 1854 and 1890. He had 30 paintings exhibited at the Royal Academy and specialised in Highland Cattle and general genre paintings. He was also an accomplished portrait painter. He has paintings in the permanent exhibitions at Sunderland, York and Leicester Art Galleries and also in the Long Room at Lords Cricket...

Wonderful image after Rembrandt Fine Steel engraving. Published by Blackie & Sons London. C.1850 Unframed.

Antique Victorian pastel on paper of a fine quality still life with game by American Artist, William Henry Chandler (1854-1928). Chandler was a ...

This handsome pair of English sporting paintings by Alfred Wheeler (1851–1932) captures two complementary moments during a traditional fox hunt, one depicting a mounted rider clearin...

One of a set of three. This is a hand-colored aquatint print titled The Hunter by Henry Alken, originally published in 1821 as part of a series of six plates called The High Mettled ...