Andrew John Henry Way was a portraitist and still life painter born in 1826 in Washington, D.C.

In 1859 he gained the attention of Emanuel Leutze and thereafter changed his focus to still life painting instead of portraits.

[1] In 1866, the art collector William Thompson Walters acquired property on Woodburne Ave near Govanstown (later became Saint Mary's).

[2] The painting, Bunch of Grapes, is currently on view at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.

[3] A private scrapbook of Way's, housed at the South Carolina Historical Society, includes clippings from Baltimore newspapers about the Southern artist William Aiken Walker.