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# There was a time when some fruits were so exotic that artists painted their portraits
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/bylo-vremia-kogda-nekotorye-frukty-byli-nastolko-ekzotichnymi-chto-khudozhniki-pisali-ikh-portrety/
- Published: 2022-08-04T06:09:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:38:11.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, Mores, Nature

There was a time when some fruits were so exotic that artists painted their portraits. So it was with this distinguished pineapple, grown in the garden of Sir Matthew Decker at Richmond, Surrey.

Dutch painter Theodorus Netscher, 1720