SAMUEL ALKEN 3 I 



were engraved and published in London in October, 

 17S6, show that at this time he was living at 3, 

 Dufour Place, Broad Street, Soho. His forte lay 

 In directions different from these, however, and 

 subsequently he appears to have devoted himself 

 entirely to sporting subjects and with considerable 

 success. He worked in both oil and water colours, 

 sometimes on a large scale in the former ; other 

 drawings are mere pencil sketches only partly 

 coloured. Many of his pictures in either medium 

 display great merit, particularly as character studies 

 of the sport of his time. 



His influence upon his nephew when the young 

 man was at the be2:InnInor of his career has been 

 remarked. It is at least likely that he imbued 

 Henry Aiken with the taste for delineating those 

 studies of Hunting character in which he so 

 peculiarly excelled. 



His range was a very wide one ; but It is through 

 his innumerable hunting scenes that he is most 

 generally known. One of these entitled " Hunters 

 at Covertslde," portraits of horses belonging to the 

 celebrated Colonel Thornton, was engraved by J, 

 Pollard, and published by S. Knights in 1820. 

 Four companion works by this artist, " Fox Hunt- 

 ing," "Hare Hunting," "Stag Hunting" and 

 "Coursing," engraved by T. Sutherland, plates 

 measuring 26 inches by 9 inches, were published 



