Louis Dewis

Officier dAcadmie now known as the Ordre des Palmes Acadmiques

Dewis was born Isidore Louis Dewachter in Mons, Belgium, the son of Isidore Louis Dewachter and Eloise Desmaret Dewachter. He spent his formative years in Liege where his closest boyhood friend was Richard Heintz , who also became an internationally known landscape artist.

Source: Wikipedia