Francis Petrus Paulus

Francis Petrus Paulus

1862 1933

American artist (1862–1933)

Francis Petrus Paulus 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, of which he became a trustee, and where he cofounded the Detroit Art Academy.

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