The "Roux" dynasty began with Joseph Roux (1725-1789) who owns a hydrographer's shop on the port of Marseille inherited from his father. He is the first of this dynasty to paint and draw, drawing on nautical charts, harbor plans ... he is probably the initiator of the kind of painting called "portrait of boats".

His son Ange-Joseph Antoine (1765-1835), bathed from an early age in the shop of his father where he drew the desire to draw the many buildings of the port of Marseille. He was known for his many reconstructions of naval battles as well as multiple ex-votos.

His originality was at the level of composition: he used to represent on the same watercolor twice the same ship. Four children took up the artistic torch follow...