Local artist Andrew John Henry Way abandoned portraiture for still life around 1860. However, his “portraits” of specific grape varieties including Black Hamburg, Muscat, Gros Flammé de Tokay, and Prince Albert were praised by contemporary critics. In his International History of the United States (1881), Albert Sidney Bolles noted, “About 1840 or 1850 the growing interest in fruit-culture led to a larger cultivation of hothouse grapes by fanciers and wealthy gentlemen.” Among them was Baltimore collector William T. Walters, for whom Way painted an ambitious image of Prince Albert grapes grown in Walters’ greenhouse on his estate north of the city. Unfortunately, neither still life in the BMA collection is clearly identified as to type of grape.