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Joseph Roux was a member of the famous Roux family of painters from Marseilles, France. Three generations of the family operated a hydrographic business between the mid-1700s and the 1860s. Gifted both scientifically and artistically, these celebrated craftsmen produced and sold nautical instruments, published maps and charts and painted ship portraits in watercolor.

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