Francis Petrus Paulus

Francis Petrus Paulus (March 13, 1862 – February 2, 1933) was an American visual artist and teacher, known for paintings and etchings. He often depicted scenes of Bruges, Belgium, where from 1898 he kept a studio and lived for part of each year; from 1905 he directed an art school in Bruges. His other home was his native Detroit, where he taught painting and drawing at the Detroit Art Museum (now Detroit Institute of Arts), of which he became a trustee, and where he cofounded the Detroit Art Academy.