Andrew John Henry Way's painting An Abundance of Fruit presents a carefully composed placement of highly detailed fruits and vegetable in a natural setting on the ground surrounded by leaves. The painting demonstrates why Way was one of the most popular still life artists in Baltimore, Maryland during the nineteenth century. He started his professional career as a portrait painter, but turned to still life painting when a well-known artist and colleague complimented him on his technique. Way became known as a specialist in painting grapes and oysters, so much in fact that some people called his still life images portraits of the objects he painted.