{Artist} Arthur Hacker

Happy Friday loves! I hope you've had a wonderful week :)  My week was very nice. Though, last night my youngest daughter decided to keep me awake most of the night, so I've had very little sleep & quite tired. But, I wanted to leave you some of my most favourite paintings by the great Arthur Hacker. There is a small bio on him here, I hope you will enjoy his work and look into him more, as there is much to discover. You will see my favourite below..'The Cloud', I adore this painting and quite wish I was on a cloud just now..but his work makes me daydream, I adore it! I hope you enjoy it & have a wonderful weekend!

Lots of loves

xoxoxoxo

Arthur Hacker (25 Sep. 1858- 12 Nov. 1919) was born in London, the son of Edward Hacker, the line engraver. He went to the RA Schools before studying in Paris under Leon Bonnat, who was internationally famous as a portrait painter and a lifelong friend of Degas. Bonnat was the ideal teacher for Hacker who became a fashionable portrait painter himself.

His early work consisted of genre and historical scenes, such as The Waters of Babylon and The Annunciation which was brought by the Chantrey Bequest in 1892. As an indirect result of the success of this painting he was elected an associate of the RA and soon after began teaching at the Academy, when he partially abandoned subject painting in favour of portraiture, in which he achieved considerable success. He was elected an Academician in 1910 and began to paint a series of London street scenes, including A Wet Night in Piccadilly Circus, which met with mixed reception from the critics who were not prepared for a painting of this nature, which was far more modern in its treatment that anything else Hacker had produced. In his later years he returned to painting mythological and allegorical subjects. He died on Wednesday, 12 November 1919 in London, where he had resided all his life, and was buried at Brookwood Cemetery near Woking, Surrey.

Some of his work

The Sryinx

Oil on canvas

The Temptation of Sir Percival

c.1894

oil on canvas

Autumn

c. 1907

oil on canvas

Circe

c. 1893

The Cloud

c. 1902

Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1902 with lines from The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley: 

"And I all the while bask in Heaven's blue smile, 
While he is dissolving in rain."

The Sea Maiden

c. 1897

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{pictures & bio from here}