fruitiers

Updated: June 18, 2025

'Queen with her five children. 'Queen with dwarfs, Sir Geoffrey Hudson having a monkey on his shoulder. Van Dyck had several great patrons, after the king. For the Earl of Arundel, in addition to portraits of the Earl and Countess, the painter designed a second Arundel family picture, which was painted by Fruitiers.

Sarah Tytler - The Old Masters and Their Pictures: For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art

Of course this possibility cannot be denied, at least in any single instance, but it seems too sweeping an assertion to make for the whole range of observed forms. The alternative theory is that of van Mons, the Belgian originator of commercial varieties of apples, who has published his experiments in a large work called "Arbres fruitiers ou Pomonomie belge."

Hugo de Vries - Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation