Arthur Hacker

Arthur Hacker RA (St Pancras, Middlesex, 25 September 1858 – 12 November 1919 Kensington, London) was an English classicist painter.

Hacker was the son of Edward Hacker (1812–1905), 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).

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.

[1] Paintings on public display include The Annunciation at Tate Britain, Pelagia and Philammon in Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery,[2] The Children's Prayer (1888), The Atkinson Museum, Southport and The Temptation of Sir Percival in Leeds City Art Gallery.

Bust of Arthur Hacker in bronze by Edward Onslow Ford
The Cloister of the Bell (detail) by Arthur Hacker
Hacker's grave in Brookwood Cemetery