A Wet Night at Piccadilly Circus is a 1910 oil painting by the British artist Arthur Hacker. A cityscape, it depicts a view of Piccadilly Circus in Central London. The rainy evening atmosphere of Edwardian era London is captured by a brightly illuminated yellow mist alongside the pedestrians and carriages. Ackroyd p.214
When Hacker was elected to full membership of the Royal Academy of Arts the same year he was required to submit a diploma work and he presented this.https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/a-wet-night-at-piccadilly-circus He displayed the painting at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1911 held at Burlington House.McConkey p.135
References
Bibliography Ackroyd, Peter. Colours of London: A History. Frances Lincoln, 2022. McConkey, Kenneth (ed.) Impressionism in Britain. Yale University Press, 1995.