Samuel Henry Gordon Alken

Place: Ipswich

Born: 1810

Death: 1894

Biography:

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. His most prolific period of painting and drawing occurred between 1816 and 1831. Alken was born on 12 October 1785 in Soho, Westminster, and baptised on 6 November at St Ja...