As a member of The Hague School, which flourished at the end of the 19th century in the Netherlands, David Artz shows on his canvases the characteristic gray dimmed light of cloudy days resulting from the attempt to capture the luminosity and atmosphere of the landscape. His themes vary between bucolic and coastal scenes, in which often there is the presence of families of fishermen, highlighting the outdoor painting, also characteristic of that School, by influence of Dutch Romanticism.