Antoine Roux

Ange-Joseph Antoine Roux, "Antoine Roux" (1765–1835) was a French fine art painter who specialised in maritime painting, sometimes referred to as marine art.

Career Roux came from a family of artists and primarily worked in Marseille. Early in life he was apprenticed to his father, Joseph Roux (1752–93), a hydrographer as well as an artist in his own right, spending his leisure hours painting and drawing. Antoine died of cholera in Marseille in 1835.

Museum collections

The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts holds a collection of Roux's works. The National Maritime Museum, (NMM), London, England. New York Public Library, USS President. The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia Musée National de la Marine in Paris, France

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