Featured in this lot is an Original Signed William F. Draper Oil Pastel Portrait Painting, Young Relative, 1950. Provenance: ex-private Bozeman, Montana collection. Signed and dated by the artist on the lower right. A beautiful portrait by William Draper depicting one of his young Boston relatives. William Franklin Drape (1912–2003) was an American painter known as the "Dean of American portraitists". William Draper's career spanned seven decades and his subjects included a portrait of John F. Kennedy that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. based upon an oil sketch for which the president sat in 1962. Draper was actually the only artist who painted JFK from life. Draper showed at Knoedler, the Graham Gallery, Portraits, Inc., the Far Gallery, The Findlay Galleries (New York, NY) and the Robert C. Vose Galleries (Boston, MA). His work has been included in shows at the National Portrait Gallery and the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), The National Academy of Design (New York, NY), The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, (Boston, MA) the Fogg Art Museum, (one of the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA), the National Gallery, (London), Salon de la Marine (Paris) and in museums in Australia. He also taught at the Art Students League of New York, and received a lifetime achievement award from the Portrait Society of America in 1999. The frame was designed by the renowned craftsman framer Leon Brathwaite through his Newbury Frame Shop in Boston, MA. The painting is in wonderful condition displaying Draper's skills with portraits. The matted wood frame is in good overall condition, slight scuffing noted on frame edges. Visible art measures 13.75"W x 17.75"L, frame is 22"W x 26.5"L x 1.2"5D. Combined weight is 6lb, 10oz.