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Ange-Joseph Antoine ROUX, attributed to
Rival of Salem captn…
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Ange-Joseph Antoine ROUX, attributed to
Rival of Salem captn…
See original version (French)
Lot no. 10
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Ange-Joseph Antoine ROUX, attributed to
Rival of Salem captn John Clarck Mai 1804 ; Pionner of Salem Captn Wm MagFord June 1803
Pair of drawings, pen and black ink, watercolour
42 x 52.5 cm
Ange-Joseph Antoine Roux, born in Marseille on 6 March 1765 and died there on 20 April 1835, was a French hydrographer and marine painter.
Born into a Marseilles family renowned for hydrography and marine painting, he was the son of Joseph Roux (1725-1789), himself a royal hydrographer and marine painter, and Marie-Ursule Demolin.
From an early age, Antoine Roux began working in the family studio, located in the Old Port of Marseille. There he learned his trade by drawing the many ships calling at the port. He went on to create a number of depictions of naval battles, as well as a number of ex-votos, testifying to the faith of sailors.
He is sometimes credited with inventing the ship's portrait in France, a genre influenced by the presence of British sailors in Marseille at the time.
On 27 April 1790, he married Rose Elisabeth Gabrielle Catelin in the church of Saint-Laurent in Marseille. She was the daughter of Gabriel Catelin, a ship's captain, and Marie Rose Abeille.
The couple had five children, all of whom became artists specialising in ship portraits, thus perpetuating the family legacy.
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