Summer Evening, Broad Haven Sands
David James (real name Joseph Donahue) was an Irish artist who became well-known for marine landscapes.
Exhibiting at the Royal Academy on multiple occasions from 1886 to 1897, James gravitated towards depictions of the sea after time spent in Yorkshire. Crashing waves became a signature of his oeuvre (body of work). His mature works depict the sea off the southwest coast of England, in Cornwall and Scilly.
This painting depicts Broad Haven Sands on the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales.
