Louis Dalton Porter (May 17, 1919 – June 28, 2006) was an American artist. Porter's work includes a five-foot (1.5 meter) painted bluebird sculpture, "The Prince." Prince George's County, Maryland bought "The Prince" in 2003 and presented it as a coronation gift to its "sister city," the Royal Bafokeng Nation of South Africa. Porter also applied gold leaf in the National Shrine of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., and to the domes of several government buildings. Porter died of a heart attack at his home in Oxon Hill, Maryland at the age of 87.