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Francois-Joseph-Frederic Roux (1805-1870) By 1822, at the age of seventeen, he was already painting for profit in his father's studio having developed a style that would have been the envy of many an older practitioner. He became an apprentice to Horace Vernet in the 'atelier Vernet' in Paris at a young age and was soon to embrace great success both within the French court and elsewhere, so much so that he decided in 1835 to move to Le Havre where he became a hydrographer and "painter of marines". His watercolours of Le Havre are admired particularly for their high quality and within his own lifetime he was to receive international acclaim.

Francois-Joseph-Frederic Roux (1805-1870)

A frigate at anchor in a bay, undergoing an extensive refit

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Francois-Joseph-Frederic Roux (1805-1870)
A frigate at anchor in a bay, undergoing an extensive refit
signed and dated 'Frederic Roux 1834' (lower right)
pencil, black ink and watercolour
8 x 12½ in. (20 x 31.7 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Another version, but larger, also attributed to Frederic Roux, is illustrated in The Artful Roux - Marine Painters of Marseille by Philip Chadwick Foster Smith, published by The Peabody Museum of Salem, 1978, pp. 54 & 55, no. 100.

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