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Going to the Meet
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Henry Alken
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Going to the Meet by Henry Alken captures the charged stillness before a fox hunt begins, with vivid hunting reds set against a breezy English landscape, now available as a hand-painted oil reproduction.
Description
Description
Stand back a few paces and this canvas asks for room: a wide, low horizon of a composition, built to let riders, horses, and hounds spread across the picture plane the way they would have gathered on an actual morning before a hunt. The proportions favour breadth over height, so your eye travels sideways through the scene rather than up into it, taking in one grouped figure after another as if walking the length of a stable yard.
About Going to the Meet
What you are looking at is the moment just before motion, the assembly at the meet where riders in their red coats hold their mounts steady while hounds circle underfoot, everyone aware that the real business of the day has not yet begun. Henry Alken built a career on exactly this kind of suspended energy, and here his instinct for equestrian gesture, the set of a horse ear, the angle of a rider shoulder, gives the gathering a sense of barely contained readiness even though nothing is technically happening yet.
The palette does the rest of the work. Alken plays the hard reds of hunting coats against the soft greens and greys of open English countryside, a contrast that pulls your attention straight to the human and animal figures while the breezy, atmospheric landscape keeps everything grounded in a particular kind of weather, damp, cool, and expectant. This picture sits comfortably within the sporting art tradition that Alken did more than most to define in Britain, and it shows him at ease with a subject he clearly knew from close observation rather than invention.
The hand-painted reproduction
Bringing a work like this into your own home means trusting the hand that repaints it, and that is where the process earns its keep. A trained painter builds this museum quality hand-painted oil painting reproduction layer by layer, matching Alken palette of muted country tones and hunting reds stroke by stroke, letting the oil sit thick where the original brushwork demanded texture and thin where the sky needed to breathe. Nothing about it is printed; every ridge of colour on the canvas has been laid down by a working artist with a brush.
- Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Gallery-ready presentation, ready to hang
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Free worldwide shipping, with no shipping charge to any country
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Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
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Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
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Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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