Ralph Wolfe Cowan (December 16, 1931 – September 4, 2018) was an American portrait artist.

[citation needed] His life and work are the subject of the 2015 feature-length documentary The Last Old Master.

[4] Cowan died in his hometown, West Palm Beach, on September 4, 2018.

[5] Cowan had a longstanding relationship with the Royal Family of Monaco, and first painted Princess Grace in 1956.

He has also done portraits of U.S. Presidents Reagan, Carter, Johnson, Kennedy and Trump (The Visionary),[6] as well as Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Nancy Sinatra, Steve Wynn and most notably, Elvis Presley, for whom he remained the only commissioned artist whose portrait was allowed to hang in Graceland, the latter having been seen by some 23 million visitors since 1982.