Michael Del Priore is a national award-winning artist and is in the front ranks of American portrait painting. Prominent work can be seen in major capitols, supreme courts, universities, banks, hospitals, and private homes. Commissions total over 600, including the following: William Gates (pictured left), Senators Strom Thurmond and Pat Roberts, Governors Carroll Campbell and Robert McNair, Congressman Bryan Dorn and Henry Hyde, and House Speaker Robert Sheheen, just to name a few.