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{{Short description|English painter}}
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[[File:Arthur Hacker bust.jpg|thumb|Bust of Arthur Hacker in bronze by [[Edward Onslow Ford]]]]
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[[File:Hacker Arthur The Cloister of the Bell.jpg|thumb|''The Cloister of the Bell'' (detail) by Arthur Hacker]]
'''Arthur Hacker''' {{Post-nominals|post-noms=[[Royal Academy of Arts#Membership|RA]]}} ([[St Pancras, London|St Pancras]], Middlesex, 25 September 1858 &ndash; 12 November 1919 [[Kensington]], London) was an [[England|English]] classicist painter.

==Biography==
Hacker was the son of Edward Hacker (1812&ndash;1905), a line engraver specialising in animal and sporting prints (who was also for many years the registrar of Births and Deaths for the Kentish Town sub-district of Pancras Registration District, Middlesex). [[File:Arthur Hacker RA Grave.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Hacker's grave in [[Brookwood Cemetery]]]]In his art he was most known for painting religious scenes and portraits, and his art was also influenced by his extensive travels in [[Spain]] and [[North Africa]]. He studied at the [[Royal Academy]] between 1876 and 1880, and at the [[Léon Bonnat|Atelier Bonnat]] in [[Paris]]. He was twice exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1878 and 1910, and was elected an Academician in 1910. In 1894 he was the subject of a bust by [[Edward Onslow Ford]]. An original portrait by Hacker of Sir [[Alfred Keogh]] hangs in the [[RAMC]] HQ Mess at [[Millbank]], [[London]].

In 1902, Hacker built a new house at Heath End, [[Checkendon]], [[Oxfordshire]], called Hall Ingle, commissioning the young architect [[Maxwell Ayrton]] and carrying out the decorations himself.<ref>''The Builder'' vol. 82 (1902), p. 638: "... by Mr. O. Maxwell Ayrton, for, and decorated by, Arthur Hacker, Esq., [[Royal Academy|ARA]]."</ref>

Paintings on public display include ''The Annunciation'' at [[Tate Britain]], ''Pelagia and Philammon'' in [[Liverpool]]'s [[Walker Art Gallery]],<ref>[http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/displaypicture.asp?venue=2&id=323 Pelagia and Philammon, by Arthur Hacker], Walker Art Gallery, retrieved 2 February 2012</ref> ''The Children's Prayer'' (1888), The Atkinson Museum, Southport and ''The Temptation of Sir Percival'' in [[Leeds City Art Gallery]].<ref>[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-temptation-of-sir-percival-38482 BBC - Your Paintings - The Temptation of Sir Percival], BBC, retrieved 2 February 2012</ref>

He is buried in [[Brookwood Cemetery]].

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==External links==
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* {{Art UK bio}}
* [https://www.allartclassic.com/pictures_zoom.php?p_number=694&p=&number=HAA100 Read analysis of Hacker's painting Cloud, 1901]
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