Juan De'Prey (1904, Haiti - 1962, New York) was a painter and muralist who moved to Puerto Rico at a young age. When he was 25, he decided to move to New York and pursued painting. By 1934, he cofounded a Latin Art collective alongside Mexican artist Miguel Angel de Leon called Pro Art Group. In 1939, he won an award at the Washington Square Art show and was selected to display one of his works at the Whitney Museum in 1940. He would soon start to show in galleries in New York, Puerto Rico, Massachusetts and New Jersey. He was a founding member of the artists colony in Brooklyn Heights in the 1950s, where he also ran a studio at 44 Hicks Street.