Painting and Sculpture

Charles II Presented with a Pineapple

Charles II Presented with the First Pineapple Grown in England is a 17th-century painting associated with the Dutch artist Hendrick Danckerts. The work depicts King Charles II of England receiving a pineapple from the royal gardener John Rose, an exotic fruit that was at the time considered rare and highly valuable. The painting belongs to what is conventionally described as the British school of the late 17th century and is dated to approximately 1675–1680. The composition is known in four painted versions, two of which are attributed by art historians to Danckerts himself.

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• ▸Jan van den Hoecke
• ▸Godavari River
• ▸Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts

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