[A Pawsey and Payne label on the reverse attributes the drawing to Samuel Alken Jnr.]
Drawing, 570mm x 465mm, 22½ x 18¼". Laid on board. Framed with the Pawsey and Payne label on reverse.
We agree as the style, pencil, and date of the paper c. 1820 support the Pawsey and Payne attribution. Richard Pawsey, who has died in 2003, specialising in 18th- and 19th-century sporting art. Samuel Alken, Jr. (British, 1784-1825) 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.
[Ref: 11933]  £650.00