A Wet Night at Piccadilly Circus
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| Artist | Arthur Hacker |
| Year | 1910 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
| Dimensions | 71 cm × 91.5 cm (28 in × 36.0 in) |
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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. [1]
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.[2] He displayed the painting at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1911 held at Burlington House.[3]
References
- ↑ Ackroyd p.214
- ↑ https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/a-wet-night-at-piccadilly-circus
- ↑ McConkey p.135
Bibliography
- Ackroyd, Peter. Colours of London: A History. Frances Lincoln, 2022.
- McConkey, Kenneth (ed.) Impressionism in Britain. Yale University Press, 1995.